Length: 5.8 - 6.5"
Habitat: Deciduous and mixed woodlands (favors bottomlands), forest edges, farmyards, orchards, parks, residential areas.
Diet: Mostly insects, including beetles and their larvae, wood-boring ants, caterpillars, and scale insects; spiders; some seeds and berries.
Female Downy Woodpecker
Credit: Ken Thomas
Male Downy Woodpecker
Photo © Mike Danzenbaker
(Credit: U. S. Geological Survey)
Breeding Bird Survey Map,
2011-2015
(Image credit: USGS)