Brown-and-white woodpecker that is barred brown-and-white in front and solid brown on the back. Males have a small patch of red at the back of the head.
Spotted and barred brown and white below and solid brown above. Note brown cheek patch. Females lack red on the head.
Excavates a hole, often in a dead tree, where they raise the young. Males and females bring larvae and other insects to the nestlings.
A small, compact woodpecker with a relatively long, straight, chisel-like bill.
Larger than a Downy Woodpecker, smaller than a Hairy Woodpecker.
robin-sizedOrnithologists recognize two subspecies: arizonae, resident from Arizona and New Mexico south to northwestern Durango and northeastern Sinaloa, Mexico. A smaller darker subspecies, fraterculus, occurs from southwestern Sinaloa and central Durango south to Michoacán, Mexico.
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