Top 10 Favorite Species of Woodpecker

[Breckenridge]

List your top ten favorite species of woodpeckers, any bird within the family Picidae.

My personal list, in no particular order.

1. Pileated woodpecker
2. Lewis's woodpecker
3. Acorn woodpecker
4. Northern flicker
5. Red-headed woodpecker
6. Puerto Rican woodpecker
7. Downy woodpecker
8. Red-bellied woodpecker
9. European green woodpecker
10. Ivory-billed woodpecker (if it still exists)

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Yes, woodpeckers! Awesome Piciformes.

10. Pileated woodpecker

9. Heart-spotted woodpecker

8. Blood-colored woodpecker

7. Acorn woodpecker

6. Little green woodpecker

5. Campo flicker

4. Crimson-bellied woodpecker

3. Orange-backed woodpecker

2. Black woodpecker

1. Red-breasted sapsucker.

 

[amur leopard]

For me, my top ten is the following:

1. Magellanic woodpecker
2. Black-rumped flameback
3. Arrowhead piculet
4. Pileated woodpecker
5. Banded woodpecker
6. Greater yellownape
7. Andaman woodpecker
8. Black woodpecker
9. Lineated woodpecker
10. Pale-billed woodpecker

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

I don't know if I have a top 10 of woodpeckers but certainly my favourite woodpecker species is the blonde crested woodpecker.

 

[Breckenridge]

I don't know if I have a top 10 of woodpeckers but certainly my favourite woodpecker species is the blonde crested woodpecker.

That's a very distinctive bird. I think the reason I love woodpeckers is I've come to realize my favorite type of bird plumage is majority black, white, brown, or gray with a few brightly colored highlights.

 

[chaotic_froggie]

A couple of mine are the Gila and Ground woodpeckers, not particularly because of their appearance though.

 

[Onychorhynchus coronatus]

That's a very distinctive bird. I think the reason I love woodpeckers is I've come to realize my favorite type of bird plumage is majority black, white, brown, or gray with a few brightly colored highlights.

Yes, very beautiful species indeed.

I have seen wild ones twice in the past two weeks in SP city , including in the grounds of Guarulhos zoo.

 

[Breckenridge]

A couple of mine are the Gila and Ground woodpeckers, not particularly because of their appearance though.

I remember when I volunteered at the North Carolina Zoo and got to handle the Gila woodpecker nest that was the the cactus scar-tissue that had formed around the nest cavity.

 

[Great Argus]

In no particular order;

Acorn Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Yellow-fronted Woodpecker
Greater Yellownape
Williamson's Sapsucker
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Campo Flicker
Ground Woodpecker
Lewis's Woodpecker
Great Slaty Woodpecker

I've seen 6 of those 10, and the list is definitely influenced by species I've seen.

Two honorable mentions would be White-headed Woodpecker and Red-breasted Sapsucker.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

All species I have seen wild, in taxonomic order
Eurasian Wryneck
African Piculet
Magellanic Woodpecker
Eurasian Green Woodpecker
Andean Flicker
Cream-coloured Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Black Woodpecker
White Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker