Tag: woodpecker

Birdfeeder Birds

Pandemic-related photo opportunity; all seen within about 20 minutes. Not shown: nuthatch, chipping sparrow (?), lurking gray squirrels.

  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Blue Jay
  • Blue Jay
  • Male House Sparrow and male Northern Cardinal
  • Male Northern Cardinal
  • Raggedy-looking Male Northern Cardinal
  • Female House Finch
  • Male House Finch
  • Grackle looking for a landing spot
  • Grackle getting closer
  • Gray Catbird
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • Downy Woodpecker and female House Sparrow

Red-Bellied Woodpecker Skull

A fine woodpecker skull with an exceptionally well-preserved hyolingual apparatus presented by Duke Farms, the first in a weekly series.

Red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus). Source: TCM