and red-bellied woodpeckers, the yellow-bellied sapsucker, and the northern flicker. Aim your efforts at redirecting their ...

Yellow fever appeared in the U.S. in the late 17th century. The deadly virus continued to strike cities, mostly eastern seaports and Gulf Coast cities, for the next two hundred years, killing ...

I was hosing bird droppings—a staggeringly copious amount of them—off my front stoop when I saw one author of the mess parked ...

Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying ... a white forecrown narrowly connected to the yellow-­tinged white throat, and black sides of the head setting off a staring white eye.

If you watch the sky, there might be a day when you see a flying pizza moving from south to north. Red, yellow and black ...

All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white barred ... In rare individual females, the nape and nasal tufts can be yellow-orange instead of red. Juvenile: resembles adults but duller ...

In rapid succession, pitch-perfect imitations of red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers, gray tree frogs, red-tailed hawks, killdeer and house finches ...