Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus)
- HABITAT - Black-backed woodpeckers breed in mature or old-growth conifer forests, especially forests of spruce, tamarack, fir, pine, and hemlock. Their breeding range is boreal forest across Canada, Alaska, the north-western United States.
- DIET - Black-backed Woodpeckers feed principally on wood-boring beetle larvae. They eat some other insects and some fruit as well.
- FACTS - Although rare in most of its range this species can be common in coniferous forests affected by fire, flood or blowdowns.
Black-backed Woodpecker GALLERY
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