Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned black-and-white woodpecker with a white patch at the base of the primaries, a white rump, black chest, streaked black lower breast, and white belly.

The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the ... has a plain gray-brown head and breast (with small red cap in males) and very different calls; shows ...

An immature hairy may show some brown in its feathers ... while they’re plain white on the hairy woodpecker. “These woodpeckers (downy on the left, hairy on the right) posed perfectly for ...

DESCRIPTION: This woodpecker is a dark-brown bird with red-tipped feathers and white spots on its wings, approximately 10 inches tall. HABITAT: The species lives in the undisturbed subtropical, ...