Show an exaggerated bird the imperial woodpecker is an exaggeration of the ordinary redheaded red headed hea ded woodpecker it is nearly two feet long loaf its plumage black and white with a gorgeous starlet scarlet crest its bill white it lives in mexico and in the sierra madre mountains these th ese birds are always found in pairs and are destroyers st of trees as they devote their entire energies to one tree for as long on g as a fortnight injuring it so greatly that the tree dies in europe and asia there is a gray headed woodpecker the largest european woodpecker is seventeen inches long black with scarlet crest it is called the great black woodpecker the little brown woodpecker of ceylon is not five inches long the white headed woodpecker is a wise looking little creature that lives in the pine woods of the pacific coast there are some two hundred and fifty species of woodpeckers and they inhabit almost every part of the obe |