A sparrow-sized woodpecker that is mottled black and white with a small red patch on the top of the male’s head. The smallest, tamest, and most abundant of the eastern woodpeckers, the Downy Woodpecker forages on trees, picking the bark surface in summer and digging deeper in the winter.
Insects, nuts and berries
Forages on trunks, limbs and branches of trees, sometimes upside down. Males and females forage in separate feeding areas in fall and early winter, then form monogamous pairs by late winter. More excavation and tapping occurs in winter.
Least Concern
