Downy Woodpecker
| Picoides pubescens | Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers) |
Picoides pubescens
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae (Woodpeckers)
This tiny woodpecker is found in a wide variety of wooded habitat, from urban backyards to wilderness forests.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- February Update 2024
- Starting 2024 Right! 2024
- Happy 2024 2024
- Drama on Peabody Street 2023
- Summer Update 2023
- Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places 2023
- Spring Update 2023
- Bird Feeding, Part II: Suet 2022
- How Baby Woodpeckers Learn 2021
- Spring Update 2021
- Our Far-Flung Correspondents: WDRT Listener Mark Kastel's Barn Swallows 2021
- Looking for the Special Ones 2021
- Winter's End 2021
- American Birding Association 2021 Bird of the Year 2021
- Bog Birding 2021
- 2020 Duluth Christmas Bird Count 2020
- Backyard Fox! 2020
- Marie's Birds 2020
- I Can See Clearly Now 2019
- November Drear 2019
- The Giving Tree 2018
- Birds in the News 2018
- Of Lifer Owls and Extraordinary Sporting Wins 2018
- Warbler Walk Update 2017
- Where Are the Birds? Part 2 2017
- Red-bellied Woodpecker Nest Update 2016
- Woodpecker City! 2016
- Spring Update 2016
- Fall migration update 2015
- Where Are All the Birds? 2014
- Hairy Woodpecker 2012
- New Year's Day predictions based on your first bird of the year 2011
- Feeding Birds on a Budget 2008
- Keeping Track of Birds with a Bird Cam 2008
- Sapsucker Woods 2008
- Isabella Christmas Bird Count 2007 2007
- Autumn 2007
- Looking for Owls with Sharon 2007
- American Three-toed Woodpecker 2007
- Birding at Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge 2006
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker 2006
- Carolina Chickadees (from Arkansas) 2006
- Poem by Barb Schmeling 2005
- Superbowl Sunday Downy Woodpecker 2005
- This Winter 2005
- Downy Woodpecker 2004
- Hummingbirds 2004
- A Walk in Port Wing 2004
- Spring Is Coming! 2004
- New Year 2004: Pileated Woodpecker 2004
- December Gloom 2003
- Birds on Christmas Cards 2003
- Winter's start 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- November 2003
- Mealworms 2003
- Ice Storm 2003
- Isabella Christmas Bird Count 2003
- West Nile Virus in Chicago 2002
- Feeding Birds in August, Part II 2002
- Why Birds? 2001
- Pileated Woodpeckers 2001
- Alaska Chickadees with Deformed Bills 2001
- Winter bird activity 2001
- Downy Woodpecker 2000
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2000
- National Bird-Feeding Month 2000
- Black-backed Woodpecker 2000
- Saw-whet Owls: Early Spring 1999
- Black-backed Woodpecker 1999
- Fewer Birds 1999
- Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers (Placeholder) 1998
- A Perfect Fall Day 1998
- Apple Cider 1998
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1998
- Mid- Late Summer 1997 1997
- Woodpeckers 1997
- Downy Woodpecker 1997
- Spring is here—almost 1997
- Owl of February 1997
- Kowabunga! 1996
- National Bird-Feeding Month 1996
- Blue Downy Woodpecker 1996
- White-throated Sparrow 1995
- Snow Bunting 1995
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1995
- Chickadee-Woodpecker Face-Off (Placeholder) 1995
- Signs of Spring 1995
- Woodpeckers 1995
- My Backyard Spruce Trees 1994
- Interest in birds 1994
- Feeding birds in winter 1994
- Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers (Placeholder) 1993
- Fall Bird Feeding 1992
- Phone Log 1992
- Downy Woodpecker 1991
- Imaginary Birds 1990
- Northern Oriole 1990
- Where are the hummingbirds? 1989
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1989
- Attracting Birds in Spring 1989
- Early Spring Songs 1989
- Downy Woodpecker 1989
- Spring is on its way 1989
- Bird Report 1989
- Valentine's Day 1989 1989
- How birds survive winter 1989
- Feeder contest 1989
- Bird Feeding 1988
- White-breasted Nuthatch 1988
- Signs of Spring 1988
- Sounds of Winter (reworked) 1988
- Why Birds Attract People 1988
- Economic Systems of Birds 1987
- Woodpeckers 1987
- Birding Anywhere 1987
- Early Signs of Spring 1987
- Valentine's Day 1987 1987
- Sounds of Winter 1987
- Woodpeckers 1986
- Black-backed Woodpecker 1986
- Feeding in mid-autumn 1986
- Fall Feeding 1986
- Fall Migration Update 1986
- Legal Protection of Birds 1986
- Where Are the Hummingbirds? 1986
Sound Recordings
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- April 17 Morning Song 2022
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 23, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 5 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- Windy Morning Dawn Chorus, May 3 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- Morning Twitterings 2020
- Downy Woodpecker: 2 sets of drumming calls 2020
- Downy Woodpecker: 3 1/2 minutes of drumming 2019
- Downy Woodpecker: 19 sets of drumming calls 2019
- House Wren: 6 minutes of singing 2018
- White-breasted Nuthatch: 12 songs 2018
- Dawn chorus in Minocqua, Wisconsin 2009
- Fox Sparrows and other April birds 2001