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Great Spotted Woodpecker Female

Dendrocopos major

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Great Spotted Woodpecker

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Antoine Verfaille
The male has a red patch on the back of his head and the female has that brown spot on the top of her beak.
Thomas O
How can you tel it is a female?

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PublishedJanuary 31, 2012

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