Lewis's Woodpecker Similar Species Comparison

Adult

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.

Adult

A large, dark woodpecker with a pink belly and red face. Occasionally visits feeders.

Adult

Often perches on posts or wires from which it flycatches for insects.

Adult

A green-backed woodpecker with a pink belly, a gray collar, and a red face patch.

Adult

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.

Adult

Hitches up trees like a woodpecker, but also perches perpendicular on branches or on wires similar to a songbird.

Habitat

Adult

Nests in cavities in dead and decaying trees in oak woodlands, open ponderosa pine forests, and woodlands near streams.