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 ...

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 ...