Hungry Downy Woodpecker In A Tangled Of Tree Limbs Royalty-Free Stock Photography

The downy woodpecker Dryobates pubescens is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America.The downy woodpecker was described and illustrated with a hand-coloured plate by the English naturalist Mark Catesby in his The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, which was published between 1729 and 1732. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he included the downy woodpecker, coined the binomial name Picus pubescens and cited Catesby`s book.