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The striped woodpecker is 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long and weighs 35 to 39 g (1.2 to 1.4 oz). Males and females have the same plumage except on their heads. Adults of both sexes have a black forehead and crown, a blackish hindneck, and a generally white face with a blackish stripe back and down from the eye and a black malar stripe. Males ...
Black-bodied woodpecker: Dryocopus schulzii (Cabanis, 1882) 178 Lineated woodpecker: Dryocopus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1766) 179 Pileated woodpecker: Dryocopus pileatus (Linnaeus, 1758) 180 White-bellied woodpecker: Dryocopus javensis (Horsfield, 1821) 181 Andaman woodpecker: Dryocopus hodgei (Blyth, 1860) 182 Black woodpecker: Dryocopus martius ...
The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America.Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in). Downy woodpeckers primarily live in forested areas throughout the United States and Canada, with the exception of deserts in the southwest and the northern tundra.
The northern flicker or common flicker (Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate.
They have black wings with large white patches. The female is completely different in appearance: mainly black, with a pale yellow breast, a brownish head with black streaking and fine barring on the back, breast and sides. Originally, the female was considered to be a different species and named the black-breasted woodpecker by Cassin ...
The Syrian woodpecker lacks its relative's black cheek bar and has whiter underparts and paler red underparts, [11] although juvenile great spotted woodpeckers often have an incomplete cheek bar, so can potentially be misidentified as Syrian. The white-winged woodpecker has a far more extensive white wing patch than the great spotted woodpecker ...
Black-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes pucherani: southeastern Mexico south to western Ecuador. White-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes cactorum: Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus: Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Jamaican woodpecker: Melanerpes radiolatus: Jamaica. Golden-cheeked woodpecker ...
Sind woodpeckers are similar to Syrian woodpecker in appearance, but is slightly smaller (20–22 cm, versus 23 cm), with a thin moustachial stripe, and extensive white feathers on their back and smaller beak. Sind woodpeckers have large white shoulder patches and white bars on its black feathers.