Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

The golden-fronted woodpecker certainly has a unique appearance, with its zebra-patterned body and speckles of yellow and red on its head. Its unmistakable look made it easy for Texans to target ...

The Golden-fronted male has a yellow/gold nape ... The Ladder-backed is slightly larger than the Downy Woodpecker, the smallest North American woodpecker. If you see these two species well ...

In rare individual females, the nape and nasal tufts can be yellow-orange instead of ... Compare with the golden-fronted woodpecker, which has solid black central rectrices, lacks pink or red ...

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Blue Jay, American Crow, Horned Lark, Tree Swallow, Black-capped ...

Student Kathleen Kujawa studied foraging behavior in probably the most common of local woodpeckers, the golden-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons). She found that this woodpecker acquires ...

The red-bellied woodpecker's drumming is similar to the downy's but much more robust, almost like a small jackhammer. Its drumming can be heard throughout the day. The golden-fronted woodpecker of ...

Clockwise from top left: Santa Marta sabrewing; Golden-fronted bowerbird; yellow-eared parrot ... Best known is the ivory billed woodpecker. Its last universally accepted sighting in the United ...

Also, a woodpecker’s brain is oriented ... central tail feathers with solid black tail margins. But golden-fronted woodpeckers have a yellow to golden nape and adult males have a small, separate ...