The rhythmic drumming echoes through the forest as the great spotted woodpecker makes its presence known. Captured in its ...

Discover how woodpeckers use their bodies like hammers, combining muscle power and coordination to drill through wood.

Woodpeckers use the same breathing technique used by professional tennis players. Exhaling at the moment of impact helps ...

Few sights feel as wild and lively as the rapid tap-tap-tap of a woodpecker at work on a tree trunk. For garden lovers who ...

A new study reveals how woodpeckers brace nearly their entire body - head, neck, and abdomen- so the bird becomes, ...

The birds grunt like tennis pros when generating their rat-a-tat, a performance strategy that may help stabilize core muscles.

Woodpeckers pack a punch, pounding wood with extreme force and experiencing decelerations of up to 400g. Now, researchers ...

Muscles are key for woodpeckers as they turn their bodies into a hammer when drilling. In Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers reveal that the birds’ head, neck, abdomen and tail muscles brace ...

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