Golden-fronted Woodpecker Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Male (Northern)

Barred black-and-white woodpecker with a tan breast. Males have a yellow spot in front of the eyes, a red crown, and a yellow-orange nape.

Female (Northern)

Barred black-and-white woodpecker with a tan breast. The lower belly is yellow on northern birds, including the ones that occur in the United States. Females have a yellow patch in front of the eye and a yellow nape.

Adult female and male (Northern)

Both sexes care for the young. Here, the female brings a moth and waits for the male to leave before entering the nest hole.

Male (Velasquez's)

Nape color varies across its range from yellow-orange in the north, to red in Yucatán, to orange from Chiapas, Mexico, to Honduras. The lower belly color varies across the range; birds in the Yucatán have red lower bellies.