To protect this woodpecker and the post-fire ecosystems it depends on throughout California, in 2010 the Center and the John Muir Project petitioned to list the bird under the California Endangered ...

There may be many more birds nesting in your neighborhood than you realize! Michael Charnofsky introduces a multitude of our ...

This common desert woodpecker replaces the closely related Nuttall’s in arid regions; the 2 species are known to hybridize at a few localities in southern California. Polytypic (about 8 ssp.