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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Woodpeckers love this kind of wood, siding. The Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management — a resource Moorman recommended — breaks down the materials woodpeckers prefer:. The birds love ...
Like other woodpeckers, insects form a large part of the diet, being caught on the wing in some species, but fruit is also eaten in large quantities and some species consume sap. They all nest in holes that they excavate in trees, and the red-crowned woodpecker and the Hoffmann's woodpecker are unusual in that they sometimes enter their holes ...
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 ...