There are lots of woodpecker deterrents that people can try such as hanging up spinners or pieces of shiny, reflective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. woodpecker Woodpeckers are notorious for pecking – or drumming – away at trees in search of food, a mate, and when nesting. But ...

You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they're dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

Frame sequence from a high-speed video of pecking in the pileated woodpecker (Erica Ortlieb & Robert Shadwick, University of British Columbia) (CN) — How do woodpeckers not get concussions? This ...

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 ...

Woodpeckers are remarkable examples of natural engineering, capable of delivering rapid, powerful pecks to drill into trees, find insects, and communicate, all without causing self-injury. Although it ...

Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like ...

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A woodpecker's brain takes a big hit with every peck against a tree. Yet the animals don't get brain damage. A team of scientists says the reason is the brain's very small size. A woodpecker's brain ...