The brain of a woodpecker experiences a seemingly catastrophic impact every time beak meets wood. "When you see these birds in action, hitting their head against a tree quite violently, then as humans ...

Even though it is April now and spring is officially here, the windows on the back of our house look out over a field of snow that disappears into the woods and only begins to break up when it reaches ...

Remarkable footage captures the moment a red-headed woodpecker evicts a starling squatting in its nest by yanking it out of a tree trunk. Woodpeckers and starlings are cavity nesters, meaning they ...

Man, that’s got to flatten out some brain cells. Slow motion footage from a Turkish TV program The Glory of Nature found on Reddit shows a woodpecker repeatedly drilling its beak into a tree. You can ...

As I watched a woodpecker banging away at a tree, it made me think, why don’t woodpeckers get headaches or suffer brain trauma from all that drumming? So, I looked it up. Once again, nature has ...

A woodpecker's brain takes a big hit with every peck, but these birds don't experience brain damage. And NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a team of scientists who think they have figured out why. JON ...

A new study refutes the popular idea that a woodpecker's brain is cushioned from the violent impacts of pecking. It offers a different reason the... The brain of a woodpecker experiences a seemingly ...