See the closely similar Nuttall’s woodpecker. The Gila also has barred back pattern and is often common in the same habitats, but the Gila is larger than the ladder-backed, has a plain gray ...

From a family of black woodpeckers raising their chicks in a Polish forest to gila woodpeckers making their home inside a giant cactus in the middle of the desert, and acorn woodpeckers ...