female (Michigan, USA; 2010-08-27) |
Downy Woodpecker
Picoides pubescens
Native Range:
North America and Middle America
Notes: common; smaller bodied and smaller billed than Hairy Woodpecker but nearly identical in plumage; forages along small twigs as well as larger branches and trunks; contact call a short pik, longer call a rattling series of kikikikiki notes; also communicates in part by drumming.
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female, ventral view (Michigan, USA; 2010-08-27)
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female showing white stripe up center of back (Michigan, USA; 2010-08-27)
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female (Michigan, USA; 2006-08-20)
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male, showing red patch on back of head (Michigan, USA; 2007-08-17)
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female (Colorado, USA; 2009-02-14) |
female (California, USA; 2009-04-19) |
probing branch with long pink tongue (California, USA; 2007-08-18) |
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