Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers (family Picidae) are a family near-passerine birds.Members of this family are found all over the

world,except in Australia,New Guinea,New Zealand and Madagascar and the polar regions.They are of the family Picidae.Most species live in forests and woodlands,and some live in treeless areas,like rocky hillsides and deserts.They have strong claws,short legs and stiff tail feathers which enable them to climb trees.Their sharp bills are used to chisel out insects as food and holes to use for nests and and to drum territorial signals

Species native to North America
Woodpeckers
 * Acorn WoodpeckerTh-1458162061.jpg
 * Red-headed Woodpecker
 * Ivory-billed Woodpecker (one of the biggest woodpeckers that have ever existed.Extinct,but has been rediscovered in Arkansas in 2004.There have been several other sightings ever since.There is a seperate subspecies that resides in Cuba)
 * White-headed Woodpecker
 * Pileated Woodpecker


 * Lewis's Woodpecker


 * Golden-fronted WoodpeckerTh-1458162431.jpg
 * Red-bellied Woodpecker
 * Gila Woodpecker
 * Northern Flicker
 * Gilded Flicker
 * Ladder-backed Woodpecker
 * Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Endangered)
 * Arizona Woodpecker
 * Nuttall's Woodpecker

Sapsuckers-these woodpeckers drill evenly spaced rows of holes in trees and then visit these "wells" for the sap and the insects it attracts
 * Great Spotted Woodpecker (from Europe,casual to the western Aleutians and the Pribilofs;accidental to north of Anchorage)
 * Williamson's Sapsucker
 * Red-breasted Sapsucker
 * Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
 * Red-naped SapsuckerTh-1458162782.jpg