Downy Woodpecker

Dryobates pubescens bird

Smallest woodpecker; forages insects on shrubs and trees and excavates nest cavities in soft dead wood (poplar, birch).

3 documented plant relationships.

nests in

Paper BirchBetula papyriferatree · April–MayTrembling AspenPopulus tremuloidestree · April

eats seed of

ChokecherryPrunus virginianashrub · May–June