(See "Weasel Rides Woodpecker in Viral Photo—But Is ... It sits at an angle toward the back of its head, like a half orange with the flat side facing the front. That creates more surface area ...

LAGUNA WOODS – A rare bird, part of the woodpecker family, has been spotted in Orange County for the first ... has a solid black back and black head with white stripes, donning a bright yellow ...

A handful of other woodpecker species in Wisconsin have red on their heads, including the downy woodpecker — which is much smaller than the pileated — and the red-headed woodpecker ...

Others, such as the downy woodpecker, are almost identical -- the only distinctive field mark being a small red patch on the back of the head, which the male has but the female does not.

Compare with the golden-fronted woodpecker, which has solid black central rectrices, lacks pink or red on the belly, and has a different pattern of color on the head. In breeding season ...

The notion that the woodpecker head primarily needs to be a functional hammer made sense to me. From reading the literature, it appeared to me that cranial shock absorption has never been ...