Learn from the Woodpecker
Over 180 species of woodpeckers in the world. How many have you seen?
Excellent insight into the world of woodpeckers
Woodpeckers of North America
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Vast amounts of information on the behavior, lifecycle, habitat, conservation outlook, calls and drums, and every other imaginable aspect of North American woodpeckers. Includes Mexican and extinct species.
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The Red-cockaded Woodpecker holds a compelling interest for everyone.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker: Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem (Corrie Herring Hooks Series, Number Forty-nine)
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Though small among its woodpecker relatives, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker poses a huge dilemma for its human neighbors. Uniquely adapted to live in the old-growth pine forests of the southeastern United States, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker has nearly disappeared as the forests have been cleared for agricultural, commercial, and residential uses over the last two centuries. Today, it waits at a crossroads.
One of the most exciting and rare birds in the world
In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
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With its large bill and impressive appearance, the ivory-billed woodpecker, long thought to be extinct, is an ornithologist's holy grail. Organizations have sponsored searches for it; nature Web sites ask visitors to e-mail in their ivory-billed reports; and flocks of hopeful birders descend upon the American South every year hoping to find one.
Poster Print - Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 1829
Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 1829 Animals Giclee Poster Print by John James Audubon, 36x48
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# Print Title: Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 1829
# Artist: John James Audubon
# Size: 36 x 48 inches
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
The Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, is a North American woodpecker. Its preferred habitat is mesquite and riparian woodlands in Texas and Oklahoma. Cooke listed this species as an abundant resident of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, in 1884.
Black-rumped Flameback,
The Black-rumped Flameback, (Dinopium benghalense), also known as the Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker, is a woodpecker which is a widespread and common resident breeder in much of South Asia. It is the only Golden-backed woodpecker with a black throat.Rasmussen, PC & JC Anderton 2005. Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions.
A Pair of Endangered Red Cockaded Woodpeckers - a poster print
A Pair of Endangered Red Cockaded Woodpeckers Sit by Their Hole Animals Photographic Poster Print by Taylor S. Kennedy, 24x18
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# Print Title: A Pair of Endangered Red Cockaded Woodpeckers Sit by Their Hole
# Copy: Digitally Printed on Archival Photographic Paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display
# Artist: Taylor Kennedy
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
About the size of the Northern Cardinal, the Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) is approximately 8.5 in. (20-23 cm) long, with a wingspan of about 14 in. (36 cm.) and a weight of about 1.5 ounces. Its back is barred with black and white horizontal stripes.
Category: Image - :Picoides borealisEHP10CC1.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Detail of head The Red-cockaded Woodpecker's most distinguishing feature is a black cap and nape that encircle large white cheek patches. Rarely visible, except perhaps during the breeding season and periods of territorial defense, the male has a small red streak on each side of its black cap called a cockade, hence its name. The Red-cockaded Woodpecker feeds primarily on ants, beetles, cockroaches, caterpillars, wood-boring insects, and spiders, and occasionally fruit and berries.
Woodpecker Family Puppet
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Woodpecker Family Puppet [Toy] [Toy]
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Great Spotted Woodpecker moms and dads share care of the young. Nesting in a hollowed out tree, these baby woodpeckers are about ready to take their first flight. Dad is removable, but also perches on a nearby branch. Animate dad and all three babies from below. Rat-a-tat-tat noisemaker included! 7" tall hand puppet.
Striped Woodpecker
The Striped Woodpecker (Veniliornis lignarius) is a woodpecker found in southwestern South America. It occurs northwest- and southwestwards of the range of its sister taxon, the Checkered Woodpecker, in the Cordillera Patagonica and its foothills, and in another population in the Andes of Bolivia and the adjacent foothills. As the latter is isolated and differs in numerous respects, it is being considered to separate it as V. (lignarius) puncticeps.
This species was long placed in the genus Picoides where it was, together with its sister species, considered something of an oddball. In 2006, Moore et al. published research on mtDNA COI and Cyt b sequences which suggests that the Striped and Checkered Woodpeckers are actually most closely related to the White-spotted Woodpecker, Veniliornis spilogaster, a peculiar Picoides-like species which also was hitherto unique in its genus.
Magellanic Woodpecker - of Chile and Argentina
A Male Magellanic Woodpecker
More than 9,800 species of birds
Birds of the World: A Photographic Guide
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This superb reference closes with an up-to-date list of the more than 9,800 species of birds recognized by ornithologists
Downy's communication, behavior, nesting, feeding, and brooding habits
Downy Woodpecker: Wild Bird Guides
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The woodpecker's life cycle and behavior in the wild
* Brilliant images from leading nature photographers
Male Downy Woodpecker
This completely revised sixth edition of Birds is current as of 2005 and incorporates hundreds of updates since the last edition
The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World
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The most established resource on the taxonomy and biogeography of birds for the world birding community.
6 edition (June 7, 2007)
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Pair of Pileated Woodpeckers on Floridas Gulf Coast Photographic Print
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- TheWhistler TheWhistler Oct 31, 2008 @ 11:08 am
- Beautiful pictures, beautiful birds, terrific lens. Thanks.
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- opalship opalship Aug 10, 2008 @ 3:47 pm
- Ecellent pictures, enjoyed your site.
We are frequented by several varrieties here and I love to photograph their interesting visits outside our window.
My Icon is a woodpecker and giant iguana & here is a link to two more fresh woodpecker photo's on the right. http://www.opalship.net/help_save_sanibel.htm
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- riff999 riff999 Apr 18, 2008 @ 7:48 pm
- Nice lens. I really enjoyed my stay.
~Jane
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- mulberry mulberry Apr 16, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
- Interesting birds, I had one in my yard years ago who performed the service of gobbling up many insects from some old trees (without charge too!) but we didn't get along as he liked to "drill" on the metal cover on my chimney and wake me early in the morning.
Woodpecker Index
- Excellent insight into the world of woodpeckers
- The Red-cockaded Woodpecker holds a compelling interest for everyone.
- One of the most exciting and rare birds in the world
- Poster Print - Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 1829
- The Search for Ivory Billed Woodpecker
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker
- Black-rumped Flameback,
- A Pair of Endangered Red Cockaded Woodpeckers - a poster print
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Woodpecker Family Puppet
- Striped Woodpecker
- Magellanic Woodpecker - of Chile and Argentina
- A Male Magellanic Woodpecker
- More than 9,800 species of birds
- Downy's communication, behavior, nesting, feeding, and brooding habits
- Male Downy Woodpecker
- This completely revised sixth edition of Birds is current as of 2005 and incorporates hundreds of updates since the last edition
- Link to Woodpeckers
- Before you go - please leave a note....
- MP3 - Hear the Pileated Woodpecker - excellent recording
- MP3 - Downy Woodpecker
- MP3 - Hairy Woodpecker
MP3 - Hear the Pileated Woodpecker - excellent recording
MP3 - Downy Woodpecker
MP3 - Hairy Woodpecker
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