A strong beak can build a grand nest. It can also crank up the volume. Do we use our words to build a safe place, or just to overpower?

An Acorn Woodpecker never forgets. Staring at a woodpecker granary makes you consider the sorts of words you’re storing up and filing away.

A sapsucker uses its mouth to wound a tree and trap its prey. A simple word from our own human mouths can accomplish the same.

“No human being can tame the tongue.” But what about a woodpecker? The first in a 4-part series on woodpeckers and the power of words.