Red-bellied Woodpecker

Identification Tips:

• Length: 8.5 inches
• Medium-sized woodpecker
• Pale gray face, throat, breast, and belly
• Back strongly barred with black and white
• Black wings barred and spotted with white
• White bases to the primaries appear as white crescent in the hand in flight
• White rump and uppertail coverts with sparse dark markings
• Dark tail with black and white barring on the central retricies

Adult Male:

• Red cap extending from bill to nape

Adult female:

• Red nape patch, gray crown, and red spot above bill

Juvenile:

• Brown head devoid of red