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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 and sides. Originally, the female was considered to be a different species and named the black-breasted woodpecker by Cassin ...
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 ...
Pale-billed woodpecker Male 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. guatemalensis Binomial name Campephilus guatemalensis (Hartlaub, 1844) The pale-billed woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae ...
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.
The black-rumped flameback is the only golden-backed woodpecker with both a black throat and a black rump. [8] Leucistic birds have been recorded. [13] Two specimens of male birds from the northern Western Ghats have been noted to have red-tipped feathers on the malar region almost forming a malar stripe.