Woodpecker (Jamaican)

This woodpecker is endemic to Jamaica. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. The Jamaican Woodpecker is a little larger than the red-bellied woodpeckers and it is protected by the Wildlife Protection Act.

Size: 10–11 inches and the top of head and nape of neck are brilliant red, while the remainder of the head is white. The mantle, back and wings are black, narrowly barred with white. The breast and abdomen are yellowish-brown, with an orange patch in center of lower abdomen. The tail is black. The red on the head of the female covers only a portion of the crown, but also extends to the nape of the neck

Photographed in Ochos Rios, Jamaica near the Rockland bird sanctuary Nov. 2015