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Downy Woodpecker
Dryobates pubescens
DOWO · Picidae · Woodpeckers
Forest provisional · from avonet
45heard
The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America.
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
Wolfgang WanderCC-BY-SA-3.0
45Detections
23Days heard
0.71Mean confidence
3 AugFirst heard
28 SepLast heard
11,551Stations worldwide
By hour of day
00061218
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
3 Aug
28 Sep
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
At home32 detections
On outings13 detections
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.
2026-08-22 09:04
9 s
0.99
2026-08-22 09:04
9 s
0.92
2026-09-24 01:53
9 s
0.89
2026-08-16 07:06
9 s
Away 0.87
2026-09-07 08:50
9 s
0.87
2026-09-05 08:39
9 s
0.86
2026-09-26 10:12
9 s
0.86
2026-08-16 07:06
9 s
Away 0.86
2026-08-07 06:55
9 s
0.85
2026-08-16 07:05
9 s
Away 0.83
2026-08-04 18:20
9 s
0.82
2026-08-16 07:06
9 s
Away 0.81