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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...