The Lewis's Woodpecker is a large, dark, black-backed woodpecker with an extensive pinkish red belly (the only north-American woodpecker so coloured). It has a wide gray collar and dark red face patch. It also has a greenish-black head and back.
The pink underparts and wide black wings are the best marks and the sexes are similar.
It has a straight crow-like flight and a fly-catching habit.
This not-so-usual woodpecker is scare and localized in the western U.S.A. and Mexico. It is common in open woodlands of interior foothills and valleys, but less common on the Pacific coast.
Main food is insects, mostly caught in the air, but also eats fruit, acorns and other nuts. It stores acorns, which it first shells, in tree bark crevices.
They are generally silent birds.
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