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Carpintero Habado
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Mauricio Herran (sismhm)
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| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-08-31 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC H9 |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/200 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-09-08 12:12 |
| Viewed: 805 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
This is a Red-crowned Woodpecker or in spanish known as Carpintero Habado, the scientific name is Melanerpes rubricapillus.
It is a resident breeding bird from the southwestern Costa Rica to the Guianas and Trinidad and Tobago. They usually live in forest and semi-open areas.
The main way to differentiate the male from the female is the red color in the head. In the male covers the head up to the neck (as you can see in the shot). In the female is only present in the neck.
They nest in holes made by them selves in cactus, palms, Trupillos (type of acacia) and big trees, from 3.5 mt up to 25 mt. They lay two eggs twice a year incubated by both sexes.
They usually feed on fruits like mangoes, bananas and insects like little spiders, larvas and mosquitos.
Adults are 20.5 cm long and weigh 48 g. They have a barred white and black back and wings, two sides of the head are buff brown.
This shot was taken near the Gaira river mouth, just in the camping area. |
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- Pitter (62)
- [2008-09-09 15:03]
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I´d love to see this bird in person. Thanks for posting the photo. It looks a lot like the Red-bellied Woodpecker of the Eastern US. I´m sure you could set this camera at 200 ISO with out risking loss of image quality such as grainyness. If you have adobe photoshop you could use a little "fill flash" to lighten the head and a touch of sharpening.
