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Hairy Woodpecker

Picoides villosus

Photo by BillCarpenter
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Field Notes

Description:

Hairy Woodpecker

Habitat:

Mixed boreal forest, this area is a primarily an old birch forest, lots of post mature trees.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
HemaShah
@raulalsc, what you have is an "Acorn wood pecker" and what Bill has is a "Hairy Wood Pecker". They are different species and hence you may not be able to use the same criteria for differentiating between male and female!
HemaShah
This bird looks a little like a Downy's woodpecker.very cute.
raulalsc
She´s a female ! and I have a male woodpecker http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/5180041 look at the position of the red spot

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