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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 ...
Adult males have a mostly red head with a white to pale yellow patch at the base of the bill and a small black and white spot on the ear coverts. Adult females are black around their eye and on front of their crest. They have a wide white stripe with black edges that extends from the bill to the ear coverts and continues narrower down the side ...
White-winged woodpecker: Dendrocopos leucopterus (Salvadori, 1871) 140 Great spotted woodpecker: Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) 141 Okinawa woodpecker: Dendrocopos noguchii (Seebohm, 1887) 142 White-backed woodpecker: Dendrocopos leucotos (Bechstein, 1802) 143 Rufous-winged woodpecker: Piculus simplex (Salvin, 1870) 144 Stripe-cheeked ...
They have a white stripe behind the eye and a lower white stripe across each side of the head, a red chin and a bright yellow belly. 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 ...
Unlike the black-rumped flameback (D. benghalense) and the common flameback (D. javanense), the greater flameback's dark moustache stripes are divided by white (making them inconspicuous at a distance); except in C. stricklandi, their hindneck is white (not black), and even in the Sri Lankan birds, the dark colour does not extend to between the ...
An adult great spotted woodpecker is 20–24 cm (7.9–9.4 in) long, weighs 70–98 g (2.5–3.5 oz) and has a 34–39 cm (13–15 in) wingspan. [6] [10] The upperparts are glossy blue-black, with white on the sides of the face and neck. Black lines run from the shoulder to the nape, the base of the bill and about halfway across the breast.
The Hispaniolan woodpecker is a gold and black barred bird growing to a length of from 22 to 28 cm (8.7 to 11.0 in). The adult male has a red crown and nape and is larger than the female, with a longer beak. The upper neck is striped black and white and the back and wings are boldly striped in black and gold.
Powerful woodpecker Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae Genus: Campephilus Species: C. pollens Binomial name Campephilus pollens (Bonaparte, 1845) The powerful woodpecker (Campephilus pollens) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family ...