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The Nuttall’s Woodpecker’s ( Picoides nattallii ) diet consists mainly of (about 80%) insects, primarily captured by probing and gleaning from tree bark. You can hear the Nuttall’s Woodpecker drumming, followed by the flight call in this recording. Click on photos for full sized images.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

On a winter’s day, a Pileated Woodpecker chops away at a fallen log. Its audience consists of a Hairy Woodpecker and a Downy Woodpecker. Once it leaves, the Hairy moves to the broken log and chops some more. After it leaves, the Downy has its chance to find something edible in the leavings.

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It is home to almost a hundred bird species, including woodpeckers and songbirds. The park is home to the Middle Spotted , Lesser Spotted , Grey-headed , Eurasian Green and Black Woodpeckers. Zvezdara Forest is located in the eastern part of Belgrade. To get there, take the bus line 65 to the “Zvezdara Forest” stop.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

While crossing Gramos Mountain in northern Greece, a Dendrocopos woodpecker flew over the road and landed in a pine tree. I had two possibilities, an uncommon Middle Spotted or scarce White-backed Woodpecker – which would have been a lifer for me. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Woodpeckers and finches The top of the city would be the highest peak of the Avala Mountain Reserve (511 m / 1700 ft above sea level), with the Memorial to the Unknown Hero and overgrown with firs and pines. In Belgrade, Serbia, winter months offer surprisingly good birding possibilities. Photo Snezana Panjkovic.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

White-bearded Manakins , Golden-olive Woodpeckers and Green Honeycreepers all came in pairs to feed on the fruit, the woodpeckers also prodding the soft, moss-laden bark for any other available morsels. A male Golden-olive Woodpecker was never far from his partner. Guianan Trogon. Green Honeycreeper. White-bearded Manakin.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Tanagers, flycatchers, woodcreepers, woodpeckers, cuckoos – the seeker is guaranteed to be rewarded. A Lineated Woodpecker and the much larger Crimson-crested Woodpecker making a landing behind it. Note the white “V” that is diagnostic of the largest woodpecker in the Caribbean. Collared Trogon.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Old beech forests are inhabited by Grey-headed Woodpecker , Eurasian Green Woodpecker , Black Woodpecker , White-backed Woodpecker (rare), Stock Dove (uncommon), Collared Flycatcher , Red-breasted Flycatcher (rare), Marsh Tit and Coal Tit. Above them, on limestone cliffs, Alpine Swift and Crag Martin breed.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Arctic Loon), Lesser Black-backed Gull , Middle Spotted Woodpecker and Goldcrest should easily make 190, although the pecker is a bit uncertain. And immediately, I hear a woodpecker looking for food. A pecker I could not see, only occasionally hear… I almost wrote “woodpecker sp. Yes, I know, I’ll reach 190, but 200?

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JUNE 25, 2020

Ground Woodpecker (Drakensberg, South Africa, Nov 2018). Rufous Woodpecker (Fuzhou, China, Mar 2019). Sunda Woodpecker (Singapore, Dec 2015). European Bee-eater (Hluluwe, South Africa, Nov 2018). I wonder if they think of themselves as European or as African birds. Eurasian Oystercatcher (Tiaozini, China, Sep 2019).

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MAY 16, 2021

Volunteer Moya Kinnealy reached in nearly to her elbow and removed four tiny Red-bellied Woodpeckers. The birds were living like city apartment dwellers … the upstairs neighbors were the woodpeckers, downstairs were the screech owls. Director Rick Schubert carefully drilled around the small opening and removed a larger piece.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

We had seen an interesting selection of birds, including Streaked Laughing Thrushes, Grey-winged Blackbirds, Rufous-cheeked Scimitar Babblers and a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker, but nothing unexpected. Then, suddenly, our guide, Gajendra, got excited. He enthusiastically pointed out a pair of… Source

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APRIL 30, 2015

Picture 7: Grey-headed Woodpecker – Picus canus. This time, we were looking for woodpeckers. Habitats here include arable fields – my first Common Quail of the season was singing Wet-mi-lips from one of them, with small poplar forests – from where a characteristic call of the Eurasian Green Woodpecker came.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

No question about it being a woodpecker – a most beautiful one at that! This Red-necked Woodpecker gave us a good look before gliding to a slightly further tree. No longer than a minute after we parted ways with the Red-headed Woodpecker , we heard another light tapping overhead.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Hoffmann’s Woodpeckers are a common, everyday sight, similar to the Golden-fronted Woodpecker , they use the same snags as a larger species, the Lineated Woodpecker. Barred Antshrike calls and sometimes pops into view as Red-billed Pigeons power overhead.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Buff-necked Woodpecker. Rufous Woodpecker. Black-Naped Monarch. Black-and-red Broadbill. Collared Scops Owl. Crested Flameback. Greater Racquet-tailed Drongo. Grey-cheeked Bulbul. Pale Blue Flycatcher. Raffle`s Malkoha. Rhinoceros Hornbill. Rufous-collared Kingfisher. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird. Rufous-winged Philentoma.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The machine-gun drumming of a Chestnut Woodpecker greeted us once we alighted from the vehicle. No visual on the woodpecker, sadly – several Scaled Pigeons bolted from the treetops as we searched, though. The eerie entrance to Asa Wright, a feeble whimper of what once was.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Golden-fronted Woodpeckers are exceedingly common here, both in the city and in the countryside. The characteristic calls of the Ladder-backed Woodpecker can be heard anywhere that there aren’t too many people. I’ve heard that vultures are a bit of a rarity in some places up north. Can somebody please confirm this for me?

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APRIL 20, 2024

I spent some time sitting on the lawn and watching an Eurasian Green Woodpecker forage around me. Eurasian Green Woodpecker In other areas, the lawn was densely covered in daisies and I experimented a bit with photographing from low angles to make the daisies look even more dense.

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APRIL 8, 2020

One moment I am seeing pine-dependent Grace’s Warblers and oak-dependent Acorn Woodpeckers, and the next I see the Hot Country endemic Golden-cheeked Woodpecker. Ladder-backed Woodpeckers move freely between the two habitat zones.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The Crimson-crested Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker in the Caribbean. New locations are going to yield new birds, such as this Sooty Grassquit. Dreaming of eye-level trogons? We got you. This Green-backed Trogon looks at me as I try to convince it to look the other way. Can you see her in this photo?

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

While making sure my kid didn’t launch himself off a high structure, I noted Eastern Bluebirds, Northern Cardinals, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Downy Woodpeckers , and potentially a Brown-headed Nuthatch , though the latter only called once so I’m not 100% sure.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Right in front of us, one more bird lands on a wire: a woodpecker! I’ve seen woodpeckers drumming on electricity pylons before, but don’t think I’ve ever seen one on the wire. This one fans it tails, showing well: a Great Spotted Woodpecker.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Those extra pages (32 more than #2) allowed for more space and completely or partly new plates of grouse, divers (loons), several groups of raptors, terns, owls (birds shown from several angles now, new vignettes, too), swifts (additional three rarities added into main plates), woodpeckers (have you ever seen an overweight woodpecker?),

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Red-headed Woodpeckers chattered to each other as they flew from tree to tree, and I marveled at just how many I spotted. Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Eastern Bluebirds rounded out the species near the pond, but in the distance I noted a Red-tailed Hawk , as well as the regular calls of a Northern Bobwhite.

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JUNE 2, 2022

Middle and Great Spotted Woodpeckers as well as the Eurasian Green Woodpecker were heard. And it offers an unusual set of birds for a forest: more Northern Lapwings, together with a Grey Heron , a dozen Little Egrets and even two Eurasian Spoonbills. A bit later, a Eurasian Golden Oriole started to play its flute.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the UK we have a mere three resident woodpeckers, but in the vicinity of Kerkini it’s not difficult to find all of Europe’s peckers except the Three-toed. Middle-spotted can be found in most of the woods and forests, Syrian are frequent in the villages, while Lesser-spotted (now a rare bird in the UK) are pleasingly common.

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JUNE 11, 2023

In the same way, all of central Michoacán’s woodpeckers are black and white and red all over. I knew coastal Mexico had greenish woodpeckers , but I had never seen one. Never, that is, until this day, when I met the Golden-olive Woodpecker.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Among our highlights were 5 doves species, a full 9 hummingbirds, 6 herons/egrets, 3 hawks and 2 falcons, 4 woodpeckers, all of 12 Tyrant Flycatchers, 3 vireos, 6 New World Sparrows, 4 New World Orioles in different shades of orange, 16 New World Warblers, 2 tanagers, and 6 grosbeaks and buntings.

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JULY 25, 2019

Finally, there are woodpeckers – both the Great Spotted Woodpecker and the European Green Woodpecker. Great Spotted Woodpecker. European Green Woodpecker. Some of the latter have actually stopped migrating and live in Northern Germany all year round. White Stork. Common Crane. She seems to enjoy them.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Grey-headed Woodpecker by Krishna Prajapati / Wikimedia Commons. Or a reservoir I visited today, with both Grey-headed and Green Woodpeckers , but the highlight were three young Little Owls exploring their yard, from the chimney and the roof to the fence posts and the lawn.

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JANUARY 3, 2023

and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams. Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

But the Macao Sanctuary is not only characterized by its high diversity in birds, there are also around one hundred species of mammals, including bats, thirty species of frogs, fifteen species of snakes, and innumerable insects such as butterflies and dragonflies.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Belgrade (Serbian: Beograd) to Deliblato Sands (Deliblatska pescara).

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MAY 19, 2021

But the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (in this case, a female) is a strictly Hot Country species, replaced by the closely-related Golden-fronted Woodpecker up where we live. Golden Vireos can also be seen near my home, while Rufous-backed Robins even visit my garden, when conditions are right.

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JULY 24, 2019

Most days you will get a good look at the Arizona Woodpecker. The resident Wild Turkey population is always ready for an easy meal at the feeders. This is a great place to see a good number of Mexican Jays. I was quiet surprised to see this male Western Tanager show up right at dark for a quick drink of water.

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OCTOBER 13, 2018

Downy Woodpecker. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo by © Michael Todd. Indigo Bunting. Photo by © Michael Todd. Summer Tanager. Photo by © Michael Todd. Bald Eagle. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Red-eyed Vireo. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Red-tailed Hawk. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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