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Black-cheeked Woodpecker
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Black-cheeked Woodpecker
From Wikipedia
Conservation status
Status iucn3.1 LC.svg
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Melanerpes
Species: M. pucherani
Binomial name
Melanerpes pucherani
(Malherbe, 1849)
The Black-cheeked Woodpecker, Melanerpes pucherani, is a resident breeding bird from southeastern Mexico south to western Ecuador.
This woodpecker occurs in the higher levels of wet forests, semi-open woodland and old second growth. It nests in an unlined hole 6-30 m high in a dead tree. The clutch is two to four glossy white eggs, incubated by both sexes.
The adult is 18.5 cm long and weighs 63 g. It has black upperparts with white barring on the back, white spotting on the wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-olive with a red central belly. There is a black patch through the eys and on the cheeks, a yellow forehead, and a red nape. The crown is red in the male and black in the female. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less red on the belly.
The Black-cheeked Woodpecker feeds on insects, but will take substantial quantities of fruit and nectar.
This common and conspicuous species gives a rattling krrrrrl call and both sexes drum on territory.
The binomial commemorates the French zoologist Jacques Pucheran. |
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Hola Luís,
Una bonita foto de éste interesante pájaro carpintero. Impresionante fauna ornitológica que tenéis en Costa Rica. Gracias por compartirla.
Ferran
hello Luis
excellent and very beautiful close-up photo of the Black-cheeked Woodpecker,
a fine POV at its level, superb focus great sharpnbess and details,
very beautiful luminosity and colour tones, TFS
Asbed
Hi Luis
Great capture of this woodpecker. You were lucky to get this close. Excellent composition, sharpness, details, DOF and OOF background.
Chris
hello Luis
this is a very nice picture with very good sharpness and details
beautiful colours with good light
greeting lou
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