The outer tail feathers are barred with black ... See the closely similar Nuttall’s woodpecker. The Gila also has barred back pattern and is often common in the same habitats, but the Gila ...

With zebra-like stripes on the backs and wings, the red-bellied woodpecker has a few look-alike relatives, such as the gila woodpeckers ... features include stiff tails to prop their bodies ...

From a family of black woodpeckers raising their chicks in a Polish forest to gila woodpeckers making their home inside a giant cactus in the middle of the desert, and acorn woodpeckers ...