It's the middle of winter in Minnesota and with fewer opportunities to be outside for woodpecker viewing, what better activity than to...

We hope you enjoy this fantastic post from guest author, Kyle Chen. Kyle is a student at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, CA...

Our Woodpecker Cavity Cam project is in full swing! Over the last month, more than 1500 volunteers have made hundreds of thousands of...

Our much anticipated Woodpecker Cavity Cam Project has been launched! We've compiled thousands of videos from the trail cameras we...

Happy New Year from all of us on the red-headed woodpecker project! We're happy to report that we had a productive year and we're already...

Red-headed woodpecker pair at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. Photo by Siah St. Clair. It's hard to believe that we were...

Cavity-nesting species are an important component of many forest communities and there are a number of ways that these animals interact...

Field work on the red-headed woodpecker project is humming along and we're enjoying another season at Cedar Creek. The woodpeckers we...

The red-headed woodpecker breeding season at Cedar Creek has begun with a slow turn from winter to spring. We've finally rounded the...

Red-headed Woodpeckers are facultative migrants, meaning that they leave their breeding grounds during some winters but not during...

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually by volunteers and organized by the...

The fall season in Minnesota has been spectacular this year and we've been lucky to have a couple of solid months of bright autumn hues...

Greg Stanley, a reporter with the Star Tribune, joined us in the field last week to learn about red-headed woodpeckers and the research...

Sightings of red-headed woodpeckers (RHWO) in Minnesota—particularly during the breeding season—are not unheard of, despite the species'...

Social behavior in birds and other animals is remarkably diverse, ranging from short-term interactions (like pollination or predation)...

Happy July, everyone! Time is certainly flying. The red-headed woodpecker breeding season is well under way and keeping us very busy in...

The 2019 field season is upon us! A warm welcome to our new and returning citizen science volunteers! Unlike the start of the 2018...

Our project is very lucky to have so many talented and dedicated citizen science volunteers, many of whom work long hours throughout the...

Post and illustration by Megan Massa From time to time I illustrate the woodpeckers at Cedar Creek, usually when something interesting...

For first-year red-headed woodpeckers (and many other bird species), late summer represents the beginning of independence from their...