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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 ...
Downy woodpeckers nest in a tree cavity excavated by the nesting pair in a dead tree or limb. In the winter, they roost in tree cavities. They tend to nest near soft snags, [18] where the wood is softer and the inner heartwood of the tree can be accessed more easily. The woodpecker will form a nest cavity in the softer heartwood, and its nest ...
Both sexes have a white supercilium, white cheek stripe, and white throat area, all separated by stripes of black, and they have a spotted black and white underside. [5] The bird is distinguishable from other similar golden-backed woodpeckers, such as the greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus), by its smaller bill and black nape, and ...
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 ...
The last unchallenged sighting in the United States of the ivory-billed woodpecker, an “iconic species” with a distinct red crest, was in 1944. ... long-necked bird with shiny black and white ...
Stripe-cheeked woodpecker Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Piciformes Family: Picidae Genus: Piculus Species: P. callopterus Binomial name Piculus callopterus (Lawrence, 1862) The stripe-cheeked woodpecker (Piculus callopterus) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the ...
The greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus), also known as the greater goldenback or large golden-backed woodpecker, is a woodpecker species. It occurs widely in the northern Indian subcontinent , eastwards to southern China, the Malay Peninsula , Sumatra , western and central Java and northeast Borneo .
There are two main ways to join the pip watch: Visit Friends of Big Bear Valley's website, friendsofbigbearvalley.org, and open the Eagle Nest tab to view the 24/7 live stream, as well as read up ...