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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-backed woodpecker: Dendrocopos leucotos (Bechstein, 1802) 143 Rufous-winged woodpecker: Piculus simplex (Salvin, 1870) 144 Stripe-cheeked woodpecker: Piculus callopterus (Lawrence, 1862) 145 White-throated woodpecker: Piculus leucolaemus (Natterer & Malherbe, 1845) 146 Lita woodpecker: Piculus litae (Rothschild, 1901) 147 Yellow-throated ...
The generic name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with herpēs meaning "creeper". [3] The genus forms part of the large tribe Melanerpini , which also includes the North American sapsuckers in the genus Sphyrapicus and the monotypic genus Xiphidiopicus containing only the Cuban green woodpecker ( Xiphidiopicus percussus ).
The keel-billed toucan is the national bird of Belize. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Belize. Belize includes around 450 smaller cays and islands lying in the Caribbean Sea in addition to the mainland. The avifauna of Belize included a total of 621 species as of May 2023, according to Bird Checklists of the World. [1]
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 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.
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.