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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: November 19, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Red-headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, photographed at Port Hope, Ontario, Canada. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Art McLeod, 18 August 2009 [larger view].
Canon 40d 400mm 5.6 lens.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
One of my favourite bird families, this looks like a juvenile bird and I'm going for Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus)dark-brown head, streaky throat and a hint of a big white patch in the wing.
Posted by: Adrian | November 19, 2009 10:16 AM
I agree Adrian, a juvenile Red-headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus: gray-brown head mottled with a hint of brown; white breast and belly; dark brown back and upperwings with paler edgings... there are apparently three subspecies (although many sources claim this is a monotypic species) but none can verify the distribution between them- M. e. brodkorbi, M. e. caurinus, and M. e. erythrocephalus
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Posted by: David | November 19, 2009 4:54 PM
Thanks very much for using my photo for your mystery bird, it's an honour:):)
Art
Posted by: Art McLeod | November 25, 2009 11:02 AM