Ladder-backed Woodpecker	(Picoides scalaris)
Photographed in Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona, by Jim Rosso	Male bird is excavating a nesting cavity out of a Toothpick Cactus.
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Other members of the genus Picoides:

Hairy Woodpecker

White-headed Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Nuttall's Woodpecker