Acorn woodpeckers

Affiliations

¹ Hastings Reservation, University of California, Berkeley, 38601 East Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, CA 93924, USA. Electronic address: wdkoenig@berkeley.edu.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, 306, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.
³ Biology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 East Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA 99258, USA.

Walter D Koenig et al. Curr Biol. 2025.

. 2025 Sep 22;35(18):R869-R870.

doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.08.021.

¹ Hastings Reservation, University of California, Berkeley, 38601 East Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, CA 93924, USA. Electronic address: wdkoenig@berkeley.edu.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, 306, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.
³ Biology Department, Gonzaga University, 502 East Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA 99258, USA.

Abstract

Walt Koenig and colleagues introduce the acorn woodpecker, a cooperatively breeding, food-caching bird of North America.

Declaration of interests The authors declare no competing interests.