Woodpeckers are remarkable birds, and in our area none is more remarkable than the pileated woodpecker. This is the largest, by far, of the six woodpecker species that occur here regularly, nearly the ...

GRAND FORKS – The big and the small showed up in my back yard last week, and each was new to my yard list. “Big’’ in this case is the pileated woodpecker, a crow-sized bird. The “small” refers to the ...