A bird or a zebra? Our most common woodpeckers are the medium-sized — 7.25–9.5 inch body lengths — and include the red-bellied, golden-fronted, ladder-backed and red-headed woodpeckers.

Ladder-backed woodpecker males and females have distinctive, black eyelines and moustache stripes that are absent on the other aforementioned woodpeckers. Adult red-headed woodpeckers are larger ...

Ladder-backed woodpeckers may be found in mesquite woodlands and other arid, woodland and desert scrub habitats. Ladder-backed woodpeckers often forage on smaller desert shrubs and yucca plants in ...

Sure, I had seen northern flickers, as well as pileated woodpeckers — the much larger, red-headed Woody the Woodpecker prototype — drumming away at the rotten bark and trunks in search of bugs.

Red-bellied woodpeckers will sometimes capture and eat small reptiles and amphibians, tiny fish and minnows and even nestling birds. I observed my first red-bellied woodpecker in Detroit Lakes in ...

Like many of our regular woodpeckers the sapsucker is a study in black, white, and red. Adult birds are about 8-1/2 inches long, so larger than both the Ladder-backed and Downy Woodpeckers, but ...

No longer endangered, this woodpecker is 'back from the brink of extinction' in Louisiana While the red-cockaded woodpecker is no longer officially endangered, it still faces threats, scientists say ...

For The Birds Ladder-backed woodpecker are frequent summer visitors across New Mexico By Ken Bunkowski For The New Mexican Aug 11, 2024 Updated Aug 11, 2024 0 ...

This bird has been turning up all across Western Massachusetts and it has been giving people fits and starts as they try to figure out just what it is. I’ve read notions that it might be a ...