A flash of red on the trunk of a tulip poplar just outside my office window in Decatur the other morning was from a yellow-bellied sapsucker — a confirmation that the bird has arrived from up north to ...

The Flint River was hidden and dark in the predawn hours below the entrance to Sprewell Bluff Park in Upson County, where people with birding scopes and sturdy shoes had gathered, some from hours away ...

Q. What is the status of the ivory-billed woodpecker? Some sources say it’s extinct. Others say it is rare but still exists. A. Most, though not all, ornithologists I know believe the ivory-billed ...

The males of the species prepare for mating season by excavating nests for the approval of the females — and even other birds and animals. Snags, or wildlife trees, are favorite haunts of woodpeckers, ...