S.A.’s Common Critters: The golden-fronted woodpecker is San Antonio’s original head-banger. By Staff writer Updated July 28, 2020 12:25 p.m.

The answer is in the tail feathers, with Red-bellied tail feathers having black and white barring, compared to the solid black in the Golden-fronted. They do have slightly different calls too. The ...

The tail feathers of golden-fronted woodpeckers are all solid black. Despite the red-bellied woodpecker’s name, red colors upon its belly are often indistinguishable in the field.

Now is the season of drumming woodpeckers. I hear their rat-a-tat-tats every morning in my front yard and during walks across my college campus. While other male songbirds utter melodious tunes in ...

In breeding season, the red-bellied gives a rolling churrr; it also gives also a conversational chiv chiv; softer than calls of the golden-fronted woodpecker. Drum: a simple roll of up to a second ...

In the case of this particular species, the name ‘Golden-tailed’ is not a very good identifier as the tail is very similar to that of a number of other woodpeckers! This is a medium-sized ...

When aircrash investigators of the future retrieve a flight recorder from the wreckage of a plane they may have the golden-fronted woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifons, to thank for the survival of the ...

Now scientists are learning how to harness the woodpecker's special abilities not to prevent headaches, but to safeguard our gadgets. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, analyzed CT ...