Cornell University’s Laboratory of Ornithology has released recordings from Arkansas of possible calls and drumming by one or more ivory-billed woodpeckers. The release will fuel a new round in the ...

Walking through Ballyannan Woods recently, I was stopped in my tracks by a sound that felt oddly out of place. A sharp, rapid rat-tat-tat echoed through the trees. It was too rhyt ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Audio recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker's distinctive double-rap have convinced doubting researchers that the large bird once thought extinct is still living in an east ...

On a cold, mid-March morning, I heard a sign of spring echo across the frigid suburban landscape: a lone woodpecker drumming on a tree. The rapid succession of persistent, rhythmic tapping continued ...

To a woodpecker’s brain, drumming against a tree is a lot like birdsong. The findings reveal substantial similarities in the brain circuitry behind hearing and executing these two major acoustic ...