Nuttall’s Woodpecker

Published June 1, 2015 at 723 × 1084 in Birds You’ll See in Wooded Areas
The Nuttall's Woodpecker is a small woodpecker, a little more than seven inches long. Like most woodpeckers, it is mostly black and white; it has a series of bars across its back and wings, and a black tail. The male has a red patch on his head. The nine-inch Acorn Woodpecker is larger with a black back, the six-and-a-half-inch Downy Woodpecker has a white stripe on its back and the eight-and-a-half-inch Redbreasted Sapsucker has a white stripe on the wing The Nuttalls Woodpecker is restricted to California and northern Mexico west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges. They can be found throughout the park wherever oak trees are found. Although Nuttalls Woodpeckers prefer to forage in oak trees, they do not eat acorns, but prefer fruits, berries, and insects, especially adult and larva beetles. They work their way carefully across trunks and branches searching crevices and under the bark, often hanging upside down as they forage, flaking and probing the bark rather than drilling.

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker is a small woodpecker, a little more than seven inches long. Like most woodpeckers, it is mostly black and white; it has a series of bars across its back and wings, and a black tail. The male has a red patch on his head. The nine-inch Acorn Woodpecker is larger with a black back, the six-and-a-half-inch Downy Woodpecker has a white stripe on its back and the eight-and-a-half-inch Redbreasted Sapsucker has a white stripe on the wing

The Nuttalls Woodpecker is restricted to California and northern Mexico west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges. They can be found throughout the park wherever oak trees are found. Although Nuttalls Woodpeckers prefer to forage in oak trees, they do not eat acorns, but prefer fruits, berries, and insects, especially adult and larva beetles. They work their way carefully across trunks and branches searching crevices and under the bark, often hanging upside down as they forage, flaking and probing the bark rather than drilling.