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The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America.Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in). Downy woodpeckers primarily live in forested areas throughout the United States and Canada, with the exception of deserts in the southwest and the northern tundra.
The striped woodpecker is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 35 to 39 g (1.2 to 1.4 oz). Males and females have the same plumage except on their heads. Adults of both sexes have a black forehead and crown, a blackish hindneck, and a generally white face with a blackish stripe back and down from the eye and a black malar stripe. Males ...
Yellow-tufted woodpecker: Melanerpes cruentatus (Boddaert, 1783) 40 Yellow-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes flavifrons (Vieillot, 1818) 41 Golden-naped woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysauchen Salvin, 1870: 42 Beautiful woodpecker: Melanerpes pulcher Sclater, PL, 1870: 43 Black-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes pucherani (Malherbe, 1849) 44 White-fronted ...
Like other woodpeckers, insects form a large part of the diet, being caught on the wing in some species, but fruit is also eaten in large quantities and some species consume sap. They all nest in holes that they excavate in trees, and the red-crowned woodpecker and the Hoffmann's woodpecker are unusual in that they sometimes enter their holes ...
Pale-billed woodpecker Male Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae Genus: Campephilus Species: C. guatemalensis Binomial name Campephilus guatemalensis (Hartlaub, 1844) The pale-billed woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae ...
This has shown that deadwood is an important habitat requirement for the black woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, middle spotted woodpecker, lesser spotted woodpecker, European green woodpecker, and Eurasian three-toed woodpecker. Populations of all these species increased by varying amounts from 1990 to 2008.
The ladder-backed woodpecker is a small woodpecker about 16.5 to 19 cm (6½ to 7½ inches) in length. It is primarily colored black and white, with a barred pattern on its back and wings resembling the rungs of a ladder. Its rump is speckled with black, as are its cream-colored underparts on the breast and flanks.
The Syrian woodpecker lacks its relative's black cheek bar and has whiter underparts and paler red underparts, [11] although juvenile great spotted woodpeckers often have an incomplete cheek bar, so can potentially be misidentified as Syrian. The white-winged woodpecker has a far more extensive white wing patch than the great spotted woodpecker ...