Compare this bird with the golden-fronted woodpecker that has yellow on the forehead and back of the neck; the red-headed woodpecker that has an all-red head and neck, and the ladder-backed woodpecker that has a black-and-white striped head. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Here's a video of a male ladder-backed woodpecker extracting insects from the thick bark of a pine tree in Santa Fe, New Mexico video uploaded 20 April 2011:Visit ontology's YouTube channel video link. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Response: This is an adult male ladder-backed woodpecker, Picoides scalaris, a species that specialises in arid and semi-arid habitats: wooded canyons, cottonwood groves, pine and pine oak woodlands, desert scrub, and desert grasslands dominated by mesquite. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The ladder-backed woodpecker can be distinguished from several congeners: the range-restricted Nuttall's woodpecker, P. nuttallii, is noticeably darker; with narrower white stripes especially below its eyes, white feathers at the base of its upper mandible, whiter underparts, and outer tail feathers with spots. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The only furniture in the room was a ladder-backed chair, a small table with a lamp on it and a round wooden tub banded in iron. ❋ Teresa Medeiros (2010)
He leaned it against a ladder-backed chair and removed the cloth. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)
At the end of the street a band of men were erecting battlements with all manner of household items: ladder-backed chairs, divans, kitchen tables, an old pianoforte that emitted an off-kilter arpeggio as it rattled across the cobblestone. ❋ Dominic Smith (2006)
A mahogany table with six ladder-backed chairs was angled to take advantage of the view. ❋ Napier, Susan (2006)
Miss A-W cast a scornful look over her shoulder as she crossed the sitting room and deposited herself in a ladder-backed wooden rocking chair sans a single softening cushion. ❋ George, Elizabeth (2005)
He nodded to a ladder-backed chair in the corner draped with a faded blanket. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (2003)
Ned lounged in the ladder-backed chair across from Lottie, rhythmically tapping his walking stick on the hardwood floor. ❋ Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- (2003)
They sat again in the rickety ladder-backed chairs. ❋ Barr, Nevada (2002)
After Anna had eaten they sat for a while at the dining table in the uncomfortable, ladder-backed rattan chairs Anna had inherited from her grandmother. ❋ Barr, Nevada (2002)
Accompanied by an alarming creaking noise that she hoped was the ladder-backed chair and not Joan's sacroiliac, the researcher rose. ❋ Barr, Nevada (2001)
