Gila Woodpecker Pictures, Images and Stock Photos

The Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) is a medium-sized woodpecker living in the low scrubby areas of the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest. They range throughout southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. The Gila Woodpecker typically builds its nest in holes made in saguaro cactus or mesquite trees. This male woodpecker was photographed while clinging to a saguaro cactus in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Gila Woodpecker on Saguaro Cactus Flower

Gila Woodpecker and Bees on Saguaro Cactus Flowers

Gila Woodpecker peeking out its nest in a Saguaro Cactus.

A Gila Woodpecker sticking its head out of the nest in a saguaro cactus.

A Gila Woodpecker sticking its head out of the nest in a saguaro cactus.

Gila woodpecker nest in a Saguaro cactus in Saguaro National Park

A gila woodpecker on a saguaro cacuts

Gila woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, Arizona, USA

Acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) in natural habitat, San Gerardo de Dota, Wildlife and birdwatching in Costa Rica.

Female Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) in flight south of Arizona. This woodpecker ranges from Arizona through west Mexico and southern Baja California. It often breeds in holes dug in saguaro cacti.

Gila woodpecker in saguaro cactus

Saguaro Cactus, Sonoran Desesrt with White Wing Dove and Gila Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker (male) (melanerpes uropycialis) on the side of a huge tree trunk

Arizona - Gila Woodpecker feeding baby

Phoenix, Arizona. A Gila woodpecker nesting in the giant Saguaro cactus

The Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) is a medium-sized woodpecker living in the low scrubby areas of the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest. They range throughout southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. The Gila Woodpecker typically builds its nest in holes made in saguaro cactus or mesquite trees. This woodpecker was photographed in Green Valley, Arizona, USA.

In the Sonoran desert, Gilded Flickers nesting in a giant saguaro cactus.

Gila woodpecker in a hole in a saguaro cactus

Gila woodpecking flying away from his nest in a cactus in the AZ desert

A Gila woodpecker hanging onto a Saguaro cactus with South Mountain in the background. Place: Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Date Taken: 5-25-13

Phoenix, Arizona. A Gila woodpecker feeding on the flowers of the giant Saguaro cactus

Gila Woodpecker at nesting site

Gila woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, Arizona, USA

red-bellied woodpecker ,Melanerpes carolinus is a medium-sized woodpecker of the family Picidae.

Gila woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, Arizona, USA

Gila woodpecker in a cactus after catching a bee flying nearby

Woodpecker on a saguaro cactus in the Arizona desert

Gila Woodpecker perched on cactus with plant material in its beak in Arizona.

Gila Woodpecker digging a hole with its beak in a Saguaro cactus in Arizona

Gila woodpecker in saguaro cactus

Gila woodpecker in saguaro cactus

Male Gila Woodpeckers (Melanerpes uropygialis) on a cholla stump south of Arizona. This woodpecker ranges from Arizona through west Mexico and southern Baja California. It often breeds in holes dug in saguaro cacti.

Hispaniolan Woodpecker (Melanerpes striatus) on a tree

A desert Gila Woodpecker perched on the side of a block wall

Acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) in natural habitat, San Gerardo de Dota, Wildlife and birdwatching in Costa Rica.

Gila woodpecker (melanerpes uropygialis) hanging from a trunk, Arizona

A Gila Woodpecker resting on a Saguaro Cactus in Tuscon Arizona

Gila Woodpecker and bees on Saguaro Cactus Flowers

Members of Melanerpes are small to medium-sized woodpeckers found exclusively in the New World. Some are West Indian endemics, and include species from Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Guadeloupe

Gila woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, Single bird on tree, Baja California, Mexico, January 2020

Red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus), species of bird in the subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. Minca, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Wildlife and birdwatching in Colombia

The gila woodpecker nests in saguaro cacti

Gila Woodpecker at Cactus Nest, Arizona, Natural Beauty

Saguaro National Park in Arizona

A Gila Woodpecker clings to a branch while foraging on the edge of a southeastern Arizona woodland.

The Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the desert regions of the southwestern United States and western Mexico. In the U.S., they range through southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. Reflection.

Hispaniolan Woodpecker (Melanerpes striatus) on a tree

Hispaniolan Woodpecker (Melanerpes striatus) on a tree

Hispaniolan Woodpecker (Melanerpes striatus) on a tree