Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned black-and-white woodpecker with a white patch at the base of the primaries, a white rump, black chest, streaked black lower breast, and white belly.

I t’s ‘woodpecker heaven’ around the cottage at the moment with Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming and sadly the yaffling of the Green Woodpecker ‘we used to hear as vanis ...

sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white barred back, white uppertail coverts, grayish white underparts, black chevrons on the lower flanks and ...

On a cold, frosty morning with snowflake shaped ice crystals on the living room window, a burst of red, black and white ...