Red-headed Woodpecker

Identification Tips:

• Length:7.5 inches
• Sexes similar
• Fairly large, strikingly black and white woodpecker

Adult:

• Bright red head and neck
• White breast, belly, rump, and vent
• Black back and wings with prominent white secondaries visible in flight and at rest
• Black tail

Juvenile:

• Mottled brown head and neck
• White breast, belly, and rump variably marked with brown streaking
• Dark brown back and upperwings with paler edgings
• White secondaries broken by brown lateral bars
• Dark brown tail