Golden-fronted Woodpecker Photo Gallery
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.
© Darren Clark | Macaulay LibraryTexas, March 02, 2020Female (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.
© Bryan Calk | Macaulay LibraryTexas, May 13, 2020Adult 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.
© Timothy Barksdale | Macaulay LibraryTexas, April 29, 1998Not all videos have soundMale (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.
© Ian Davies | Macaulay LibraryQuintana Roo, February 04, 2014Female (Velasquez's)
Individuals in the Yucatán have red napes and red lower bellies.
© Emily Turteltaub Nelson | Macaulay LibraryYucatán, May 10, 2016Male (Northern)
Eats cactus fruits as well as fruit at bird feeders.
© Becca Engdahl | Macaulay LibraryTexas, March 17, 2017Male (Northern)
Shows white rump, pale back, and white spots in wings.
© Lawrence Haller | Macaulay LibraryTexas, July 07, 2017Male (Northern)
Found in open to semiopen woodlands, second-growth forests, and brushlands.
© Michelle Cano 🦜 | Macaulay LibraryTexas, February 19, 2017Compare with Similar Species
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Species in This Family
Woodpeckers(Order: Piciformes, Family: Picidae)
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