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Though it has a vivid orange-red crown and nape it is not to be confused with the red-headed woodpecker, a separate species of woodpecker in the same genus with an entirely red head and neck that sports a solid black back and white belly. The red-bellied earns its name from the pale reddish tint on its lower underside.
Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus: Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Jamaican woodpecker: Melanerpes radiolatus: Jamaica. Golden-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysogenys: Mexico Grey-breasted woodpecker: Melanerpes hypopolius: southwestern Mexico. Yucatan woodpecker: Melanerpes pygmaeus: Belize and Mexico Red-crowned ...
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
Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 46 Jamaican woodpecker: Melanerpes radiolatus (Wagler, 1827) 47 Golden-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysogenys (Vigors, 1839) 48 Grey-breasted woodpecker: Melanerpes hypopolius (Wagler, 1829) 49 Yucatan woodpecker: Melanerpes pygmaeus (Ridgway, 1885) 50 Red-crowned woodpecker
The largest surviving species is the great slaty woodpecker, which weighs 430 g (15 oz) on average and up to 563 g (19.9 oz), and measures 45 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in), but the extinct imperial woodpecker, at 55 to 61 cm (22 to 24 in), and ivory-billed woodpecker, around 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) and 516 g (18.2 oz), were probably both larger.
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The red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers interbreed where their ranges overlap. [8] Sapsuckers are in the Picidae, or woodpecker, family, in the order Piciformes. Two subspecies are recognised: [7] S. r. ruber (Gmelin, JF, 1788) – south Alaska to west Oregon; S. r. daggetti Grinnell, 1901 – southwest USA
The red-cockaded woodpecker feeds primarily on ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, and spiders, and occasionally fruit and berries.The vast majority of foraging is on pines, with a strong preference for large trees, though they will occasionally forage on hardwoods and even on corn earworms in cornfields.