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Ivory-billed Woodpecker in East Texas!

By April 24, 2012 2 comments

Oh, wait, never mind. Darned local news stations… Hat-tip to Birdchick.

Grayish Piculet Diminutive Endemic

By April 3, 2012 7 comments

This week I find myself writing about Colombia again. But this should not come as a surprise as the country really is almost fathomless when it comes to delicious bird content. This post relates to a delightful Colombian endemic called the Grayish Piculet. Woodpeckers are phenomenally well-represented in Colombia and the country holds anything from [...]

The Woodpeckers of New York City

By March 12, 2012 15 comments

Disbelief probably seems like the proper response to the idea that there are woodpeckers in New York City.  After all, woodpeckers peck on trees, not skyscrapers. But Gotham’s many parks have some very suitable habitat for birds from the family Picidae and a birder in any borough of New York will generally find at least [...]

Red-headed Woodpecker in Queens!

By March 10, 2012 6 comments

As regular readers of 10,000 Birds already know, I am enamored of my Queens list. So when a Red-headed Woodpecker was reported on Thursday at St. John’s Cemetery by Daryl Cavallaro (who shared this picture with us awhile back) I was there first thing Friday morning. I searched for about an hour unsuccessfully before I [...]

Acorn Woodpeckers: The Clowns of the Avian World

By February 29, 2012 5 comments

Why would I call these beautiful woodpeckers the “clowns of the avian world?” Besides the facial features of the Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) appearing somewhat clown-like, they are a joy to watch and some of their antics are sure to bring a smile to anyone’s face. Both the male and female of the species have [...]

Resaco de la Palma – an excerpt from The Winter Texans

By February 24, 2012 3 comments

It’s been an indoorsy kind of week here in Montana, so I’m sharing a bit of the past with you guys: an excerpt from The Winter Texans, my essay in the current issue of Camas. While Dennis labors over the corned beef, and the potatoes and cabbage and carrots, Ellie and Chuk and I visit [...]

Slow-Mo Video of Red-cockaded Woodpecker Foraging

By February 22, 2012 No comments yet

You may remember the awesome encounter Doug and I had with Red-cockaded Woodpeckers at the Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area from this post. If you are some kind of idiot savant you might even remember that the last image of a Red-cockaded Woodpecker that I shared was of the bird holding a grub in its bill. [...]

Red-breasted Sapsuckers, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker of the West

By February 1, 2012 No comments yet

The Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber) and the Red-naped Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus nuchalis) were considered different forms of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) until 1983 when they were split into separate species. They are called sapsuckers because they create sap wells in the bark of woody plants and feed on that sap. The bird shown above arrived [...]

Lewis’s Woodpeckers Are Back

By September 28, 2011 8 comments

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) In Flight, photos by Larry Jordan Driving home from work last week I finally saw my first Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) of the fall.  Lucky for me, these beautiful and unusual woodpeckers can be found nearly year round in the oak savannah along the road I travel daily.  I consider myself extremely blessed as [...]

Crazy Flickers

By September 9, 2011 3 comments

Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA.  who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. However, he’s been known to share his perspicacious avian observations around the web, including right here! Last time, Alex asked us to Consider the Chickadee. Today, he talks about a crazy woodpecker… A [...]

Green Woodpecker

By July 9, 2011 4 comments

Picus viridis, the European Green Woodpecker is a bird that I longed to see during my early days as a feeder watcher. They never visited my little sack of nuts however and I had to venture beyond my bedroom window to find one. Green Woodpeckers prefer to eat ants and will more usually be found feeding [...]

Is That A Crazy Woodpecker Trying To Eat Your House?

By May 4, 2011 10 comments

Short answer: The woodpecker is most likely not crazy and noshing on the house is not what the woodpecker has in mind.  Woodpeckers could be pecking on homes for a variety of reasons, all of which can drive a non birder a bit batty. Talk about pesky, a Northern Flicker like the bird above liked [...]

Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons

By April 10, 2011 No comments yet

On a recent trip down memory lane in the form of searching through old photos from my trip to Honduras I serendipitously stumbled upon a series of shots of a woodpecker feeding from flower blossoms in a tree.  I was relatively certain that the bird was a Golden-fronted Woodpecker Melanerpes aurifrons but, time and memory [...]

Leucistic Pileated Woodpecker

By March 24, 2011 12 comments

The typical woodpecker, with its coloration of black, white, and red, is ingrained into our brains as birders.  We all have our familiar species and we all know our local woodpeckers well enough that a quick glimpse is often all we need to identify them.  Because many of our common woodpeckers are such a regular [...]

Lewis’s Woodpecker in New York State

By March 22, 2011 12 comments

Way back on 30 October of last year a Lewis’s Woodpecker was seen coming to a backyard bird feeder in Ontario County, New York, and was quickly identified.  Why is that awesome?  Well, first of all, Lewis’s Woodpecker is one of the most amazing woodpeckers in North America, with a color scheme of pink, red, [...]

The other southern woodpecker

By February 24, 2011 12 comments

In the southeast United States, the woodpecker that gets all the attention is the one with the red cockade.  Rightly so I guess, it is, after all, a federally endangered species and limited to a few fragments of pine barrens habitat across the south, but we in Dixie have remarkable numbers of other woodpeckers too [...]

Another California Bird? The Nuttall’s Woodpecker

By February 2, 2011 11 comments

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) is found primarily in the oak woodlands of California and northern Baja California. It just so happens that I also live in the oak woodlands of California and was able to see these little woodpeckers feeding their young at their tree cavity nest last year. This year, they are coming [...]

The northern southern Woodpecker

By December 16, 2010 7 comments

The concept of endemism, as it pertains to ecologists (and birders are nothing if not amateur ecologists), is tossed around somewhat carelessly.  Seemingly simply put, it’s a reference to a species found in some sort of defined zone be that as well defined as an island in the ocean or as nebulous as a patch [...]

A Yankee Birding North Carolina Part 2

By December 13, 2010 19 comments

With Brown-headed Nuthatch ticked off my life list I was excited to get out and about and see my life Red-cockaded Woodpecker.  Nate arrived at my aunt and uncle’s house just a couple of minutes after my sighting and we were off to Southern Pines, North Carolina, home of the Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, the [...]

The Polka Dot Woodpecker

By September 25, 2010 7 comments

Several times over the last couple of years I have had non-birder acquaintances ask me about the “bird with polka dots,” “a bird on my lawn with polka dots,” or “the polka dot bird.”  In Golden Wings, an anthology of birding tales by Pete Dunne, one of his stories is called “A Flicker Day for [...]

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