Redheaded Woodpeker at MY FRIENDS

The Red-headed Woodpecker is one of only four woodpeckers known to store food, and it is the only one known to cover the stored food with wood or bark. It hides insects and seeds in cracks in wood, under bark, in fence posts, and under roof shingles. Grasshoppers are regularly stored alive, but wedged into crevices so tightly that they cannot escape.
In addition to attacking other birds to keep them out of its territory, the Red-headed Woodpecker is also known to remove the eggs of other species from nests and nest boxes, destroy nests, and even to enter duck-nesting boxes and puncture the duck eggs.
The Red-headed Woodpecker benefited from the chestnut blight and Dutch elm disease. The devastating tree diseases killed many trees and provided nest sites for the woodpeckers.

Description
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Size: 19-23 cm (7-9 in)
Wingspan: 42 cm (17 in)
Weight: 56-91 g (1.98-3.21 ounces)
Medium-sized woodpecker.
Bright red hood.
White chest.
Black wings with large white panels (the secondaries).
White in wings obvious at rest and in flight.
Rump white.
Tail black with white outermost feathers.
Bill bluish gray with black tip.
Eye dark.
Sex Differences