Medium-sized woodpecker with a white face and crown. Males have a small red rear crown patch.
Appropriately named woodpecker with a white head. Females lack red crown patch. Back is solid black with two white patches in the wings.
Immatures have a red patch in the middle of the crown instead of at the back of the head like adult males.
Medium-sized woodpecker with a white face and crown. Males have a small red rear crown patch.
Black woodpecker with a white head. White patches in the wing are not always visible on perched birds, but they are noticeable in flight.
The only North American bird with a white head and black body.
A medium-sized woodpecker with a trim body, a short, sharp bill, rather long wings, and long tail.
Larger than a Downy Woodpecker, smaller than a Northern Flicker; similar in size to Hairy Woodpecker.
robin-sizedOrnithologists recognize two subspecies: the widespread albolarvatus and the range-restricted gravirostris of the southern California mountains, which has a larger bill than albolarvatus.
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