crow feathers

Greater Flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus) (via A female bird on a coconut tree trunk)

Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens) (via Pica pau de cabeça amarela)

fairy-wren:

crimson-bellied woodpecker

(photo by bill benish)

Yellow-fronted Woodpecker, from Sawtelle Nature Tours, Birds of Brazil

Pileated Woodpecker (by Wolverine09J)

Such a cool bird!  This is a male, notice the extended red crest and the red sub-moustachial stripe. 

Green Woodpecker, Pito Real por Fresnedoso

rhamphotheca:

fairy-wren: Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris)

(photo by HALEX)

rhamphotheca:

fairy-wren: greater spotted woodpecker  (photo by jonnylomini38)

* fuck i love woodpeckers.

Handsome Pileated Woodpecker — male, note red cheek patch and extended red on crest.

Pica-pau…Woodpecker…male. (by jaurtorq…)

Hairy woodpecker (Picoides villosus) - The larger of two look alikes, the Hairy Woodpecker is a small but powerful bird that forages along trunks and main branches of large trees. It wields a much longer bill than the Downy Woodpecker’s almost thornlike bill. Hairy Woodpeckers have a somewhat soldierly look, with their erect, straight-backed posture on tree trunks and their cleanly striped heads. Look for them at backyard suet or sunflower feeders, and listen for them whinnying from woodlots, parks, and forests.

(by fiznatty)

Northern [Red-shafted] Flicker (Colaptes auratus) - Northern Flickers are large, brown woodpeckers with a gentle expression and handsome black-scalloped plumage. On walks, don’t be surprised if you scare one up from the ground. It’s not where you’d expect to find a woodpecker, but flickers eat mainly ants and beetles, digging for them with their unusual, slightly curved bill. When they fly you’ll see a flash of color in the wings – yellow if you’re in the East, red if you’re in the West – and a bright white flash on the rump.

wildlifecollective:

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Campephilus principalis

The ivory-billed woodpecker recently went from near total obscurity to superstardom when birders reported a sighting of the believed-to-be-extinct species. The world’s third largest woodpecker was condemned to oblivion some 50 years ago, but in April 2005, a stunning video emerged from a vast Arkansas swamp forest. The tape confirmed the sighting of a live ivory-billed woodpecker—and captured the attention of the world. It was hailed as the birding equivalent of finding Elvis alive.
In the wake of the discovery, some experts supported the evidence while others suggested that the tape showed a similar, smaller woodpecker—the pileated—which remains common in much of North America.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial aid to identifying any surviving birds. A recent recording may have captured this distinctive sound, but it may also reflect noises of nonavian origin.
Until more hard evidence emerges from the Mississippi Delta’s inaccessible, 860-square mile Big Woods region, the ivory-bill’s status must remain uncertain. But it is beyond doubt that the bird captured the attention of America and became a tragic symbol of the vanished old-growth delta forests it once frequented. These woodlands survive today mostly in isolated patches.

Facts | Photo/Rendering © Tomasz Cofta

^In 2010 the Cornell Lab of Ornithology stopped all efforts to locate ivory-billed woodpeckers in the deep South.  Many leading birders (including David A. Sibley) hold that the bird in the video footage is actually a pileated woodpecker.  Cornell has thousands of hours of recordings left to analyze and its official position on the Ivory-billed is that if any are alive, the population is too small for the species to persist.  We now need to focus our conservation efforts on known endangered species.  The photo is not a live bird.

The Arizona woodpecker (Picoides arizonae) is a woodpecker native to southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico.

(by Mike and Chris)