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As you enter Lassen Volcanic National Park’s northern entrance the first thing you see along the right side of the road is Manzanita Lake with Mount Lassen in the background. White-headed Woodpecker Male. White-headed Woodpeckers usually lay 4 to 5 eggs in a clutch and we’ve seen at least three different nestlings here now.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Red-cockaded Woodpecker. It also meant Red-cockaded Woodpeckers could be nearby. Red-cockaded Woodpeckers are rare. This was my second time on the recreation area specifically looking for the woodpecker, and it looked like another bust. The pair of Red-cockaded Woodpeckers busily working up and down two thin tree trunks.

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MAY 4, 2024

A few minutes after getting into suitable habitat I heard the lovely song of a Wood Lark, and lo and behold, it was sitting right in the open on a dead branch. Similar to the Wood Lark , I have never been in the right habitat at the right time of year, so this was the first time that heard this species’ beautiful song.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

From the border check station, you can turn to the right and go to the “Highest Bar in Africa” or continue into the unknown. With the lack of trees, it was a surprise that a woodpecker is still taking up space. Hannah overlooking a valley Traveling into Lesotho from the Sani Pass is an experience more than just the journey to the top.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

Acorn Woodpecker and Black-crested Titmouse were plentiful and confiding. That day, he limited himself to showing us Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Golden-olive Woodpecker, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, Rose-throated Becard, Grey-collared Becard, Spot-breasted Wren, Olive Sparrow, Hepatic Tanager, Blue Bunting and Stripe-crowned Warbler.

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Parrots Woodpeckers Industry Fast Food 154

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Left – 2nd edition, right – 3rd edition So, not much has changed since the 2nd edition? Another difference, an odd one, some woodpeckers gained weight, could it be a time to consider a diet? Many vagrants have been recorded again and again, giving them the right to sneak into the main plates and to get a full coverage.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

You can park by the side and check the Boljetinska River Canyon at your right, a true geological history book. Among the possible species there are Rock Bunting , Eurasian Wryneck , Grey-headed and Eurasian Green Woodpeckers , European Honey Buzzard , Lesser Spotted Eagle. Somrda Peak (810 m a.s.l.) look out for Alpine Swifts ).

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MARCH 23, 2024

A Grey Heron looked quite comical as it seemed lost right in the middle of one of the ponds. A Grey-headed Woodpecker called from a clump of trees that also held a Mistle Thrush. Tufted Duck Grey Heron We decided to visit the Saalbachniederung as well, a nearby expanse of open meadow and wetland and a short train ride away.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This sounds like an exciting topic for a blog post, right? For a birdwatcher, it is rather nice to be at a place where – unlike my 13th floor Shanghai apartment – there are birds right outside the house. Great Spotted Woodpecker. Birds of a specific place with an unpronounceable name that you have never heard of?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

But next season’s specialties are right around the corner… In the face of cold winds and chill rain, I decided to keep my proverbial powder dry this weekend. Anyway, how far do you really need to go when Red-bellied Woodpeckers hang out at your feeder mere feet from a picture window?

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APRIL 6, 2023

That is a situation where I need an equivalent of a field guide, map on the right and relevant short and easy to follow description on the left hand page: getting there, GPS coordinates to help me find the right turnings or viewing points, and marked areas where particular birding specialties could be found. No more, no less.

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APRIL 3, 2014

The three of us were waiting for about an hour at only 2°C, having Great , Eurasian Blue and Coal T**s , Eurasian Nuthatch , Common Blackbird , Goldcrest and Middle Spotted Woodpecker. At the right spot. Birding Black Woodpecker Europe Serbia woodpeckers' And we wait. Nothing happens. These woodies have nerves of steel.

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Serbia Woodpeckers Europe Blackbirds 207

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AUGUST 7, 2021

The female isn’t quite so unreal but is still a cool little bird in her own right. Fortunately, as long as the right flowers are present, this special hummingbird isn’t adverse to foraging at eye level. started to visit those plantings, an area on the property now known as Nectar and Pollen. Foothill Rainforest!

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JANUARY 3, 2023

and three of the nine woodpeckers illustrated. Woodpeckers are a family of focus for Tuttle-Adams. Woodpeckers nest in cavities and their young are altricial (born in an undeveloped state), which means there is not a lot of documented information about their young and how they look at different stages.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Birds Family Collecting 249

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Project FeederWatch data prove that woodpeckers are at the top of the backyard bird feeder pecking order. This lucky youngster from Massachusetts has almost 300 ticks, but just added his favorite— a Great Gray Owl his supportive family drove hundreds of miles to glimpse.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

As the rice paddies near Kota Kinabalu described in an earlier post , Tanjung Aru beach is not really a major birding spot in its own right. The Long-tailed Parakeet can sometimes be seen here feeding right next to the Blue-naped Parrot. When Sunda Pygmy Woodpeckers want to enjoy a day out on the beach, they also come to Tanjung Aru.

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JULY 24, 2019

Most days you will get a good look at the Arizona Woodpecker. I was quiet surprised to see this male Western Tanager show up right at dark for a quick drink of water. The resident Wild Turkey population is always ready for an easy meal at the feeders. This is a great place to see a good number of Mexican Jays.

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MARCH 2, 2024

However – and I am not saying this out of misplaced national pride – there is one bird in the Netherlands that proves Jefferson wrong and Buffon right: the White-tailed Eagle (or Sea Eagle ). My hotel was right on the A6 motorway and despite the strange location it is undoubtedly the best hotel for the Oostvaardersplassen.

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AUGUST 1, 2023

“Nothing is more humbling,” he sighs, “than spending a few hours in a boat or on a riverbank, unsuccessfully trying to catch a fish, and then seeing an Osprey dive and catch one right in front of you” (p. Photographs, most by co-author Brian E. The text descriptions encapsulate everything else and they are a delight.

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MAY 13, 2022

However, unfortunately, this seems to be mainly true for Laced Woodpecker (female) … … and Greater Flameback (female). Seeing a Rufous Woodpecker for the first time, I thought it looked kind of weird. “Odd, me?” But the joke simply does not work then).

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MARCH 12, 2020

mi after the village of Gaj and spreads at the right-hand (southern) side of the road. Belgrade (Serbian: Beograd) to Deliblato Sands (Deliblatska pescara). The area is accessible from several points off the Gaj – Dubovac road. Driving from the town of Kovin, Hatarica pasture starts about 2 km / 1.2

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I am taking a sip of coffee, my eyes following an impossibly colourful Kill-Bill ( Keel-billed) Toucan , flying against the background of the Irazu Volcano slopes and, farther to the right, water-vapour ‘smoking’ Turrialba Volcano on the horizon.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Almost immediately after climbing out of our taxi, I notice two things, one of the largest concentrations of swallows circling above the trees I have ever seen, and dozens of Acorn Woodpeckers chasing each other from Eucalyptus Tree to eucalyptus. There were a few other woodpeckers to found in the area as well. And the Gilded Flicker.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

An Acorn Woodpecker , looking elsewhere. Perhaps it was right. And now it is minding mine. As a point of reference, this adult Spotted Wren has developed a full set of spots. Which explains the name. But, when it saw me, it seemed to find me quite curious. Momentarily, a Gray Silky-Flycatcher fixed its gaze on me as well.

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Sparrows California Woodpeckers Species 147

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JANUARY 25, 2013

When I was a child, the Pileated Woodpecker was a bird that loomed large — both literally, as the biggest surviving woodpecker in the United States, and figuratively, in that it was a bird on that happy borderland between humdrum and mythical, between everyday and nonexistent. A woodpecker. Not woodland loners.

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JULY 2, 2020

I can hear a Great Spotted Woodpecker calling. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? Rare species include Western Capercaillie , Golden Eagle , Eurasian Pygmy and Tengmalm’s Owls , White-backed and European Three-toed Woodpeckers , Red-breasted Flycatcher , etc.

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JUNE 23, 2022

Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. Assuming that the (North American) Imperial Woodpecker and the Ivory-billed Woodpecker are both extinct, the Great Slaty Woodpecker is the largest woodpecker species alive.

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AUGUST 28, 2014

Among birds the Egyptian Vulture uses rocks to crack Ostrich eggs, the New Caledonian Crow and Woodpecker Finch (one of several Darwin Finches of the Galapagos Islands), uses sticks to extract grubs from inside a branch. Among Woodpecker Finches, young birds quickly learn to use tools by watching how adult birds do it.

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APRIL 29, 2014

That’s right…I used the punchline from one of the worst jokes in history for this one, but it seems strangely apt. Golden-fronted Woodpecker , Altamira Oriole ) but a ton of neotropical migrants go for it too. Red-headed Woodpecker. So without further delay, here is just a sample from South Padre Island, Texas.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Oh, I brought the binoculars, all right, which birder in his/her sane mind leaves home without it, but we were going to a peninsula with no obvious birding spots, and most birding will be done by accident, from the roadside. A Cirl Bunting , several of many Northern Wheatears of the day, a Blue Rock Thrush (that only Clive saw!),

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

A Blue-throated Hummingbird just flew right past us, and over to one of the feeders. When the Coopers Hawk blew thru the yard looking for a meal, it just froze, and stayed right there for nearly 5 minutes, plenty of time for me to approach, and get this picture. That is our 5th wheel on the right corner. 1 Gila Woodpecker.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you think you have already seen enough photos of Elliot’s Laughingthrush, you may not be the right reader for this blog. Probably something about the wing bars, right? A Grey-headed Woodpecker lives nearby. He says the sound of the stream keeps him calm when woodpecker life starts getting stressful. Fashion show.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Looking in that direction, we soon discover another LSE on the ground and, in a bush right in front of us, one lovely male Subalpine Warbler. It lands on a bare branch inside the forest at the opposite slope of the valley, right next to another LSE and we observed more than we hoped for – a pair copulating.

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MAY 16, 2020

The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. Blue T**s and Great T**s abound as do Greater Spotted Woodpeckers. The existing villagers joined with the newcomers organizing a whip-round to raise money in the hope of buying it.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

However, he’s been known to share his perspicacious avian observations around the web, including right here! Today, he talks about a crazy woodpecker… A couple of years ago there was a big controversy on NPR about woodpeckers. Unlike other woodpeckers, you often see them foraging on the ground.

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JUNE 23, 2019

We had not been expecting to see a Banded Woodpecker and there we had one right in front of us. It was clear from the tree trunk that the Banded Woodpecker most likely stopped by this tree on a regular basis to look for food. However, I do have some photographs of the Banded Woodpecker ! Banded Woodpecker.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

I wondered, last August, how animals endure it — the tiny ever-pumping lungs of hummingbirds, the lungs of bighorn sheep shouldering their way up mountains, they must get filled with smoke too, right? And I think this is a good move, the right move, even though part of me still welcomes the rain.

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Endangered Species South Dakota Woodpeckers Sheep 160