Acorn Woodpeckers
You are most likely to see an Acorn Woodpecker if you hear a “Whacka-Whacka-Whacka Whack” sound or see a tree with a bunch of holes in a tree, an acorn stuck into each one. Acorn Woodpeckers are black, with a red “crown”. Around the beak is a black circle. There is a pattern like this one on the face:
It’s mostly black with a white belly an black speckled belly.
Red headed Woodpeckers
Some content from another blog post I made: Red-headed Woodpeckers are common in all seasons in the southern half of Indiana, and in the northern half of Indiana, common during breeding time.
Some new content: Red headed Woodpeckers have a bright red head (as you may imagine), and a white belly. the back is black, up to a little bit before the tail feathers, where it is white, even though the tail feathers are black.
Pale Billed Woodpeckers
Pale Billed Woodpeckers have a red head, a pale beak, and a pale white stripe down the neck and into the wing, making two pale white stripes down the wings. Most of the wing is black, except for the pale white stripe.
Pileated Woodpeckers
Pileated Woodpecker have a complex face pattern: A red crown; White, thin supercilium; Thick black eye-line; Pale white auriculars; Red malar. (If you have any trouble with these words, look at this episode of inside birding.) The rest of the body is black, with a little white on the wings.