A bird that serves as the catalyst to pique someone’s interest in the feathered world is termed a “spark bird.” The red-headed woodpecker was the spark that launched Alexander Wilson’s career. Wilson ...

The red-headed woodpecker is an uncommon sight in Minnesota outside of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in East Bethel, where researchers have honed-in on dozens of breeding pairs that return ...

As Steven Hogg sees it, sometimes you have to pick up the critters and move them to the new habitat. Sometimes if you build it, they will come. And sometimes, when it's red-headed woodpeckers you're ...