Acorn woodpeckers also feed by sallying for flying ... and black sides of the head setting off a staring white eye. Adult: iris white. Adult male has white forehead meeting the red crown.

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.

with a prominent ring around its eye. It became extinct because of predation from the invasive brown tree snake. Ivory-billed woodpecker: The third largest woodpecker in the world, the ivory-billed ...