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 ...

The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the ... is larger than the ladder-backed, has a plain gray-brown head and breast (with small red cap in ...

Monotypic (or up to 4 weakly defined ssp. sometimes recognized). Length 9". All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white barred back, white uppertail coverts, grayish white underparts ...