Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
Red-bellied are supposed to be quite common here, but this is the first one I’ve seen in a long time.

Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
Red-bellied are supposed to be quite common here, but this is the first one I’ve seen in a long time.

Funny, it looks like the neck is the red part.
Kind of a misnomer. Some do have faint red bellies. They probably would have called it a red-headed woodpecker, but that name was already taken.
Red crowned woodpecker?
Redne’cker
This is the one. Redneck Woodpeck.