You don't mention what region of the world you are in so that makes it a bit difficult to answer your question with any certain answer. If you live in North America, it's very likely that the bird you are trying to identify is a woodpecker. Try punching woodpecker into a Google image search and you may come up with the information you seek.
Here's one image of a woodpecker that meets your description. I'm sure with a few
google searches you could come up with more information about the bird you saw
than you ever imagined! Good luck!
http://www.windstar.org/eMagazines/eMagazine9660.jpg
My wife and I have seen this bird too and have been trying to find out what it is. We think it's a Bunting, but haven't found a picture to match up.
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The ivory-billed woodpecker has black body with white striped wings, but it's extinct.
There are quite a few including black colored muscovy duck or a coot
This is more than likely an evening grosbeak.
The tricolored blackbird, which is endangered and only found in California. More likely to be seen is the red winged blackbird, which has red and yellow wings.
Sounds like a Northern Flicker
Guinea Fowl
Grosbeak
Sounds like a European Starling with winter plumage.
A white-breasted Nuthatch might be the bird you're looking for.
The meadowlark is yellow with a black chest.
an ostrich and a peacock have black and white feathers
The color of a bird is important in bird identification. A whippoorwill is usually a mottled gray, black, and brown; while the underside is pale with gray and black spots.
A bird that is black with white spots on its wings might include the ivory billed woodpecker or the jackdaw. This might also be the tri-colored black bird.
flicker
pied
Cardinal cardinals are red.
The rose-breasted grosbeak.
In the UK a thrush is easily recognised by it's spotted breast
Hummingbird
Sounds like a European Starling with winter plumage.
I think that you are asking about the Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
what is a stellar jay
A hermit thrush is one example.
White Bird with Black Mark was created in 1970.