White-headed Woodpeckers are medium-sized with a black body, white head, and white patch in their wings. Adult males have a red patch on the nape. Juveniles resemble adults, but have a patch of red on top of their white head, more broken white patch on the wing, and duller black in color.

References cited in Species Profile

• Beal, F. E. L. 1911. Food of the woodpeckers of the United States. U.S. Dept. Agric. Biol. Surv. Bull. 37:1-64.
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. White-headed Woodpecker. All About Birds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/White-headed_Woodpecker/id
• Garrett, Kimball L., Martin G. Raphael and Rita D. Dixon. 1996. White-headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/252
• Mellen-McLean, K., B. Wales & B. Bresson. 2013. A Conservation Assessment for the White-headed woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus). http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/sfpnw/issssp/documents2/ca-bi-picoides-albolarvatus-2013-08-07.pdf