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Lineated Woodpecker- female


Lineated Woodpecker- female
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Copyright: Luis Vargas (Chiza) Silver Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 34 W: 0 N: 197] (964)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-04-19
Categories: Birds
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/80 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2009-04-20 22:08
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Points: 4
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Lineated Woodpecker
From Wikipedia

Dryocopus lineatus)

Conservation status

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Subclass: Neornithes

Infraclass: Neognathae

Superorder: Neoaves

Order: Piciformes

Family: Picidae

Genus: Dryocopus

Species: D. lineatus

Binomial name
Dryocopus lineatus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
The Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus) is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird from Mexico south to northern Argentina and on Trinidad.

Description

Note narrow face stripe and black billThe Lineated Woodpecker is 34 cm long and weighs 200 g. It resembles the closely-related Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of North America.

Adults are mainly black above, with a red crest and whitish lines down the sides of the throat and shoulders. The underparts are white, heavily barred with black. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat and red on the front of the crown. In adult females, these plumage features are black. The bill is black in both sexes.

Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica The call of this widespread but wary bird is a loud, ringing wic-wic-wic. Both sexes drum.

Within its range, it might only be confused with the Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos), which has a similar plumage and size. In that species, the light face line is broader, and the white shoulder lines meet on the back; it also has the light-colored bill typical of Campephilus woodpeckers.

Ecology
The habitat of this species is forest borders and other open woodland. It is not a mountain bird, though it has occasionally been recorded in the uplands (e.g. in the Serranía de las Quinchas of Colombia[1]) Three white eggs are laid in a nest hole is in a dead tree and incubated by both sexes. The young are fed by regurgitation.

Lineated Woodpeckers chip out holes, often quite large, while searching out insects in trees. They mainly eat insects, especially ants and beetle larvae, with some seeds, such as from Heliconia, and fruits, berries and nuts.
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Hi Luis,

Nice capture with good details and brightness , for few seconds I struggled to figure out the eye.

Wish you could crop the photo a bit on the left.

Regards
Sowndarya

Witaj Luis,
Pretty woodpecker. Very pretty formaldehyde. Good colours and sharpness. Interesting individual. For me exotic, because different than I saw.
Pozdrawiam - Roma

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