Arizona Woodpecker
Arizona Woodpecker: Small woodpecker with brown upperparts and heavily spotted and barred white underparts. The forehead and crown are brown, nape patch is red, and throat is white. Face is white with a large, brown cheek patch, creating a white eyebrow and line from the bill to neck.
● Song:
"peek", "chick", "chriek-a"
● Foraging & Feeding:
Arizona Woodpecker: Eats insects, especially beetle larvae, fruits, and acorns; forages by flying to base of tree, working up trunk and onto smaller branches, and then flying to base of next tree.
● Breeding & nesting:
Arizona Woodpecker: Three to four white eggs are laid in a cavity nest made of bark chips and built from 9 to 50 feet above the ground, usually in a dead branch of a living tree, primarily walnuts, oaks, maples, and sycamores. Both parents incubate eggs for 14 days.
● Similar species:
Arizona Woodpecker: Ladder-backed Woodpecker has black-outlined, buff ear patches, and white bars and spots on black upperparts; male's crown is completely red. Hairy Woodpecker has white underparts, white back and unmarked white outer tail feathers.
● Range & Habitat:
Arizona Woodpecker: Occurs in the mountains of extreme southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Range extends southward into Mexico through Sierra Madre Occidental of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Zacatecas, and Michoaca. Frequents open oak or pine-oak woodlands or sycamores in canyons.