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.
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.
Both sexes care for the young. Here, the female brings a moth and waits for the male to leave before entering the nest hole.
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.
Individuals in the Yucatán have red napes and red lower bellies.
Eats cactus fruits as well as fruit at bird feeders.
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A robust, medium-sized woodpecker with a long, pointed bill.
Larger than a Downy Woodpecker, smaller than a Northern Flicker.
between robin and crowThe Golden-fronted Woodpecker is composed of four subspecies that differ in size, amount of barring on the tail, and the color of the nape, nasal tufts, and belly. Whereas the nape of the form found in Texas and most of Mexico is yellow to orange, it is red in the Yucatan Peninsula and orange farther south. The four forms were formerly considered different species. Only the subspecies aurifrons is found in the United States; the others are found from Mexico through Central America.
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