The Lewis's Woodpecker is a bulky pink and green woodpecker with a red face that often appears dark depending on lighting. It looks like a woodpecker, but forages like a flycatcher.
A large, dark woodpecker with a pink belly and red face. Occasionally visits feeders.
Often perches on posts or wires from which it flycatches for insects.
A green-backed woodpecker with a pink belly, a gray collar, and a red face patch.
Can appear black, especially at a distance and in poor light. Unlike other woodpeckers, often catches insects on the wing. In flight often looks and flies like a crow.
Hitches up trees like a woodpecker, but also perches perpendicular on branches or on wires similar to a songbird.
Lewis's Woodpeckers are hefty with an elongated body, long wings, and a long tail. The bill is woodpecker-like, but thinner than most.
Larger than an Acorn Woodpecker, smaller than a Northern Flicker.
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