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The red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the family Picidae. It breeds mainly in the eastern United States , ranging as far south as Florida and as far north as Canada .
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 ...
Bar-bellied woodpecker: Veniliornis nigriceps (d'Orbigny, 1840) 119 Blood-colored woodpecker: Veniliornis sanguineus (Lichtenstein, AAH, 1793) 120 Red-rumped woodpecker: Veniliornis kirkii (Malherbe, 1845) 121 Red-stained woodpecker: Veniliornis affinis (Swainson, 1821) 122 Choco woodpecker: Veniliornis chocoensis Todd, 1919: 123 Golden ...
Red-bellied woodpecker; Red-crowned woodpecker; Red-headed woodpecker; S. Melanerpes shawi; V. ... This page was last edited on 14 October 2019, at 18:27 (UTC).
A red-bellied woodpecker rests on a branch of a dogwood tree after a winter storm near Knightdale, N.C. on Feb. 17, 2015. Aaron Moody/amoody@newsobserver.com Woodpeckers love this kind of wood, siding
Woodpeckers may aggressively harass potential competitors, and also use other strategies to reduce the chance of being usurped from their nesting sites; for example, the red-crowned woodpecker digs its nest in the underside of a small branch, which reduces the chance that a larger species will take it over and expand it. [42]
The black-capped chickadee is the provincial bird of New Brunswick New Brunswick is a Maritime province within Canada, bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west. Lying within the Appalachian Mountain range, the province is largely covered by temperate broadleaf ...
Adults have a red head and upper chest; they have a white lower belly and rump. They are black on the back and wings with bars; they have a large white wing patch. The northern birds, subspecies S. r. ruber, have yellow bars on the back and yellow upper belly. The southern birds, subspecies S. r. daggetti, have white bars on the back and a pale ...