Description

A medium-sized black-and-white woodpecker, more black than white. Head black with a white mustache stripe and a thin white line behind eye. Throat, breast, and belly white.

Behavior

Forages mostly on trunks, not branches or fallen logs. Strips bark from trees.

 

Habitat

Boreal and montane coniferous forests, especially mature forests with abundance of insect-infested snags or dying trees, and spruce forests.Live in forests disturbed by disease, fire, or other disasters.