The acorn woodpecker’s social structure, known as clans, consists of a dozen or more birds that will include breeding pairs and nonbreeding helpers, but during peak acorn season they will all focus on ...

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 ...

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 ...

A pest control technician thought the call he received was about a dead animal in a home’s walls. But instead of a critter, he found acorns. A customer noticed small worms coming from the wall, People ...

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 of a Sonoma County home ...

So speaks the acorn woodpecker, chiding its comrades and the world for their laziness. “Wake-up! Wake-up!” The acorn woodpecker repeats this two-syllabled phrase in constant dialogue with its brothers ...