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Copyright: Livio Soares de Medeiros (livios) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2156 W: 322 N: 4258] (16906)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-01-16
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF75-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/800 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Woodpeckers, Birds in Brazil 2, Interacting birds [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-01-19 22:36
Viewed: 1513
Points: 17
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Technically, not a very good shot. Besides, a dull sky. Anyway, here's the shot, for I do enjoy the moment... I did enjoy shooting this...
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White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus)

The White Woodpecker is a bird of the savanna grasslands of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.

It is a striking black and white bird with yellow skin around the eye and a yellowish belly. The male also has yellow on the nape.

One of its favourite foods is the irapuá bee (Melipona ruficrus) which attacks orange trees so the White Woodpecker helps in the success of the Brazilian orange industry.

(Source: www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/whitewoodpecker.html)
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The Woodpeckers are a large family of similarly designed birds found in forested areas around the globe. The have specially evolved to deal with chiseling wood, including "shock-absorber" head musculature, extremely long tongues, and stiff tail feathers helping them perch upright on trees. Woodpeckers are often a "core species" of the woodland avifauna [except in two major areas that don't have any woodpeckers: Australasia and Madagascar].

Woodpeckers come in a great variety of shapes and colors. They have the stiffly pointed specialized tail feathers that held woodpeckers perch vertically on tree trunks.

(Source: www.montereybay.com/creagrus/woodpeckers.html)
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Agree - not technically excellent, but an unusual picture. Four woodpeckers at once is pretty uncommon. You could, of course, photoshop in a very interesting sky - if your conscience allows. Handsome birds that I have never seen. Good note.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2703 W: 74 N: 8857] (30219)
  • [2006-01-20 3:10]

Well earned smile now, critique later :-)

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2006-01-20 4:13]

Hello Livio!
Funny capture.I liked POV,framing
and composition a lot.TFS...:-)

Hi Livio, this is an invasion of woodpeckers!
Fantastic! Congrats for this unusual shot. Have a great weekend.

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  • Dave Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 525 W: 47 N: 674] (2173)
  • [2006-01-20 6:52]

Wow Livio! What an amazing congregation of woodpeckers! Now, I've counted a passel of goldfinches on my thistle sock, but that is not unusual. While, this is quite interesting and cool! Justifying the post even if "Technically, not a very good shot."
Thanks,
Dave

Thats the most woodpeckers I've seen hanging vertically on a tree with their Zygodactyls. Nice group capture Livio. :)

Livio, No time for comment. Well deserved ;-)Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

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  • nofer Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1190 W: 367 N: 803] (2230)
  • [2006-01-24 22:23]

Você já está exagerando... 4 (four!!!)... Manda um pouco para Avaré... não consigo tirar uma boa foto deles... He... He...
Muito booommmmmmm! Um flagrante ótimo!
TFS
Reynaldo

nice family, TFS Ori

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