Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
A rare, cooperatively breeding woodpecker that excavates its nest exclusively in living old-growth pines and depends on fire-maintained open forest.
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Golden-fronted Woodpecker
A zebra-backed Texas woodpecker with a small patch of golden-orange on its nape, closely related to the Gila Woodpecker of the desert Southwest.
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Williamson's Sapsucker
A western mountain woodpecker so strikingly different between the sexes that males and females were once thought to be separate species.
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Red-naped Sapsucker
A western relative of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, distinguished by a red patch on the nape as well as the forehead, and closely tied to aspen forests.
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Red-bellied Woodpecker
A common eastern woodpecker with a zebra-striped back and a red cap or nape, whose faint reddish belly wash is rarely the easiest field mark to see.
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Northern Flicker
A large, brown, ground-foraging woodpecker with a spotted breast and a white rump patch flashing bright yellow or red under the wings in flight.
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Arizona Woodpecker
The only brown-backed woodpecker in the United States, found in the oak canyons of southeastern Arizona and named for its restricted U.S. range.
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Black-backed Woodpecker
A sooty, black-backed specialist of burned and beetle-killed forests, uniquely camouflaged against charred conifer bark.
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Red-breasted Sapsucker
A Pacific coast woodpecker with a strikingly solid crimson head and breast that drills neat rows of sap wells in tree bark.
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Nuttall's Woodpecker
A small, California-endemic-range woodpecker with a finely barred black-and-white back, closely related to the Ladder-backed Woodpecker but tied to oak woodland rather than desert.
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Gilded Flicker
A large golden-winged desert flicker closely related to the Northern Flicker, nesting almost exclusively in saguaro cacti across the Sonoran Desert.
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Lewis's Woodpecker
An unusually crow-like, dark-winged woodpecker that hawks insects in graceful flight rather than drilling wood, named for explorer Meriwether Lewis.
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American Three-toed Woodpecker
A quiet boreal woodpecker with a barred black-and-white back and only three toes, specialized for stripping bark from beetle-infested conifers.
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White-headed Woodpecker
An unmistakable black-bodied woodpecker of western pine forests with a completely white head, easily seen clinging to cone-laden branches.
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Acorn Woodpecker
A boldly patterned, clown-faced woodpecker famous for its cooperative family groups that stockpile thousands of acorns in specially drilled "granary" trees.
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Ladder-backed Woodpecker
A small desert woodpecker with a finely barred black-and-white back and a red-capped crown, well adapted to arid mesquite and cactus habitats.
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
A migratory eastern woodpecker that drills neat rows of small sap wells in tree bark and feeds on the sap and insects drawn to it.
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Red-headed Woodpecker
A striking, boldly patterned woodpecker with an entirely crimson-red head, snow-white underparts, and a solid black back with large white wing patches.
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Pileated Woodpecker
A crow-sized, mostly black woodpecker with a flaming red crest, famous for excavating large rectangular holes in dead trees.
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Downy Woodpecker
North America's smallest woodpecker, a familiar black-and-white backyard bird with a short bill and a red patch on the male's nape.
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Hairy Woodpecker
A larger look-alike of the Downy Woodpecker, with the same crisp black-and-white pattern but a proportionally much longer bill.
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Gila Woodpecker
A tan-headed desert woodpecker that excavates nest cavities in giant saguaro cacti, later used by many other desert animals.
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