Picoides Lacépède 1799

Wang Lang National Nature Reserve, Ping Wu County, Sichuan Province, China

Wang Lang National Nature Reserve, Ping Wu County, Sichuan Province, China

Wang Lang National Nature Reserve, Ping Wu County, Sichuan Province, China

Ranua, Finland

This Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Picoides scalaris) is pecking around a large Willow tree at Peck's Lake [Arizona]. I later saw him in a bush of Winterfat, low to the ground, and flushed him unexpectedly like a quail.

Sax-Zim Bog

Wang Lang National Nature Reserve, Ping Wu County, Sichuan Province, China

Hossa, Finland

If you're a male Ladderback and you want to impress your intended in the Spring, you'll want to show her just how fast you can hammer. This males displays for a female sitting just above him in a willow tree at Tavasci Marsh [Arizona], 3/20/98.

Grand Teton National Park

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

In the Spring both the male and female Ladder-backs use this squeaky introduction to their normal whinny. Sometimes the female uses just the squeaks as a kind of "purr" without the whinny call following.

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Hairy Woodpeckers (Picoides villosus) PEEK a lot like the Ladderbacks, just a bit more insistently. This one was atop Mingus Mountain, 2/22/99.

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Syöte nationalpark, Finland

Black-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker. Upper figure female, lower figure male.

White-Backed Three-Toed Woodpecker. Upper figure female, lower figure male (Picoides...).