On a very young bird, look for the loose ... Listen to hear what hairy woodpeckers sound like. Their call is a strong “peek” or “peech,” that sounds sharper than the downy.

What Does a Pileated Woodpecker Look Like? Pileated woodpeckers are large, graceful birds, and may be easier to attract than you thought. As big as a crow, the pileated woodpecker is the largest ...

in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus). Length 7". The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the hindneck, with very little ...

A common visitor at our backyard bird feeders, red-bellied woodpeckers enjoy eating and caching seeds of all kinds.

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.