A downy woodpecker is a small black and white bird that visits suet feeders. Listen to their call and see photos of males and ...

Adult male: entire crown, from bill to nape ... Compare with the golden-fronted woodpecker, which has solid black central rectrices, lacks pink or red on the belly, and has a different pattern ...

But it is worth listening carefully to the drumming for one that is subtly different and might lead you to a much rarer bird, ...

The sexes are similar, but the male ladder-backed woodpecker has extensive red on the crown, which is lacking in the females. See the closely similar Nuttall’s woodpecker. The Gila also has ...

Moments later, Thompson is cradling a rather irritated red-cockaded woodpecker in his hand. “Male. Purple-green, shrimp, yellow, dash, yellow, aluminum,” Thompson says, reading out the colors ...

Most woodpecker species will drill into dead and ... which are briefly displayed when the male is excited," FWS says. "The cockade is a poor field mark because it is rarely seen in the field ...