Here is the next woodpecker quiz. Can you ID it to species ? Can you say what sex the bird is ?
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Quiz Woodpecker 4
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Middle Spotted Woodpecker by Laszlo Nehezy (Hungary). Adult male in Hungary
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Woodpeckers of Europe - A Study of the European Picidae
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Photo: Daniel Bastaja. (Canada) Ringing camp in Hungary
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Photo: Jean-Baptiste Pons (France). Adult male, Danube Delta, Romania, February 5th, 2005.
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Black Woodpecker
Photo: Jari Peltomaki (Finland). Adult male in Finland
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Photo: Laszlo Nehezy (Hungary). Adult male, Bukk Hills, Hungary
Syrian Woodpecker
Photo: Gabor Vasuta (Hungary). Adult male, Budapest, Hungary
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Photo: Adult female leucotos, Bükk Hills, Hungary (Szabolcs Kókay).
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3 comments:
I guess this is a dendrocopus syriacus based on black tail and small barring (streaking) on belly-sides. I will look more on your page to see if i´m right.
Cheers/Mattias Nordlund, Sweden
I thought Syrian too, but I don't think you can tell what sex here, can you? Can't see the nape!
Mike
Mattias and Mike, thanks for your comments, and you are both correct. It is a Dendrocopos syriacus - Syrian Woodpecker. Based on black tail lacking white and pink undertail coverts. The "small barring (streaking) on belly-sides" is helpful but not diagnostic. And Mike, that's right, too, you can't sex this bird.
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