And on all sides, the air is alive with the songs of desert birds. The deserts of the Southwest provide excellent birding.

in North and Middle America; birds north of Mexico are cactophilus ... See the closely similar Nuttall’s woodpecker. The Gila also has barred back pattern and is often common in the same ...

Woodpeckers: The Hole Story pecks away at what makes these birds so special ... woodpeckers raising their chicks in a Polish forest to gila woodpeckers making their home inside a giant cactus ...

Far from being destroyed, a naturally burned forest harbors extraordinarily rich biological diversity, and there's no better flagship species to help us embrace that than the black-backed woodpecker.