Downy Woodpecker

Dryobates pubescens

Downy Woodpecker photographed by Mark Curtis
July 14, 2026
Downy Woodpecker photographed by Henry Haas
New York · January 29, 2025

When to look

Reported most in May, across 18.7M open records.

Records by month. January, 1,647,084 records. February, 1,819,533 records. March, 1,644,434 records. April, 2,229,572 records. May, 2,355,816 records. June, 1,069,944 records. July, 1,001,960 records. August, 1,107,894 records. September, 1,530,594 records. October, 1,508,557 records. November, 1,282,658 records. December, 1,477,862 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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