A woodpecker native to North Carolina that was once seen as being on the cusp of ... with scientists estimating today it represents less than 5% of its original size when the first European settlers ...

smaller woodpecker—the pileated—which remains common in much of North America. Ivory-billed woodpeckers make a unique double-knock noise when pecking at trees, and this sound may be a crucial ...

in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus). Length 7". The barred black-and-white back pattern of the ladder-backed woodpecker extends up to the hindneck, with very little ...