Polytypic. Length 9". A boldly patterned black-and-white woodpecker with a white patch at the base of the primaries, a white rump, black chest, streaked black lower breast, and white belly.

The red-bellied woodpecker is the familiar zebra-backed ... All red-bellied woodpeckers show a black-and-white barred back, white uppertail coverts, grayish white underparts, black chevrons ...

but on the downy those outer feathers have black spots, while they’re plain white on the hairy woodpecker. “These woodpeckers (downy on the left, hairy on the right) posed perfectly for ...