White-headed Woodpecker

Picoides albolarvatus ORDER: PICIFORMES FAMILY: PICIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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The White-headed Woodpecker is a bird of the pine forests of the far western mountains where it makes a living digging into unopened pine cones and eating the seeds. It is the only North American bird that has a white head and a black body.