A research story at UC has me thinking about woodpeckers like this red-headed woodpecker in Ohio. With their bold colors and loud calls, these birds refuse to be ignored.
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Captions: An acorn woodpecker finishes caching an acorn in the bark of a snag in California. I was very happy to find them while exploring the forests around Monterey.
A red-bellied woodpecker eats suet from a feeder. I need to do a better job photographing our local woodpeckers. I see them all the time but don't have many pictures.
The northern flicker is perhaps the loudest bird in the eastern forest. Even if you have never seen one, you surely have heard its piercing calls. They are terribly hard to photograph.
A yellow-bellied sapsucker has a name that sounds completely made up. (I suppose all names are made up.) But this one sounds especially fictional. They are beautiful but skittish birds.
North America's largest woodpecker is the pileated woodpecker, found across most of the United States. I photographed this one at Miami Whitewater. You're far more likely to hear this bird than to see it.
A juvenile red-headed woodpecker caches an acorn in a snag at Cape May's Ponderlodge.
I went looking for this woodpecker while exploring Tierra del Fuego National Park in Argentina. It's the beautiful female Magellanic woodpecker. I found it by following its unmistakable drumming. I also saw the male but wasn't patient enough and blew the photo opportunity.
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