Acorn woodpeckers are one of our most common woodpeckers in Sonoma County, and they are known to cache (or store) acorns in places like chimneys and vent pipes of homes, especially when their natural ...

Cinematographer Mark Carroll takes us up in a crane to show us how he was able to capture feeding and caching behavior at the Acorn Woodpecker’s eyeview at the Hastings Natural History preserve in ...

GLEN ELLEN, Calif. -- A pair of California woodpeckers are surely crushed after a pest control technician on a routine call recently found their massive trove of acorns cleverly stashed in the walls ...

When prime habitat is up for grabs, acorn woodpeckers travel from all around to see who will win. By Priyanka Runwal Acorn woodpeckers are renowned food hoarders. Every fall they stash as many as ...

The findings could help scientists learn more about how social behaviors evolved in other animals Abigail Eisenstadt Male acorn woodpeckers, like the one on the left, have more offspring over their ...

It was unmistakable, that sound: ritcha-ritcha-ritcha. It had to be an acorn woodpecker, a bird with which I am very familiar. I had not heard it for more than four years, since moving to Tucson. I ...

DEAR JOAN: Every year, we have six or more acorn woodpeckers at our bird feeders daily though the spring and summer. We love their cackling calls, red heads and colorful faces. They all disappear in ...

Woodpeckers stacked over 700 pounds of acorns 20 to 25 feet high in a California home’s chimney. Santa Rosa exterminator Nick Castro made the discovery during a December vacation rental inspection for ...