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| The Acorn Woodpecker is a robin-sized woodpecker (Family: Picidae, Order: Piciformes) found relatively near human residence. The woodpecker has black wings and a black back, a white belly, white eyes, white cheeks, and a red patch on the nape. The female woodpecker has a black spot on the red patch on the front side. | |
| The male has all red patch reaching up to the white forehead.
The woodpecker has zygodactyl feet and has two toes forward and the other two backward. The woodpecker has a yellow patch on the throat. | |
| The woodpecker caches acorns in the holes on tree trunks. | |
| This individual was found searching the hole for foods. | |
| The woodpecker found an acorn in the hole. | |
| It took out the acorn. | |
| Then flew away with the acorn in its mouth. | |
| The tree trunks covered with the holes, many of them filled up with acorns. |
