Year we were rewarded with a pair of Nuttall's that fledged a We had to remove the top-heavy canopy for safety reasons, and the next
We had left a tall stub of this dead Monterey pine when (right) was bringing food to nest hole just outside our bedroom window Woodpeckers that live in my yard on the Monterey Peninsula. Woodpeckers: Australasia and Madagascar]. Woodland avifauna [except in two major areas that don't have any Woodpeckers are often a "core species" of the Including "shock-absorber" head musculature, extremely long tongues,Īnd stiff tail feathers helping them perch upright on trees (Winkler They have evolved to deal with chiseling wood, But it's a nice photo anyway.Īre a large family of similarly designed birds found in forested areasĪround the globe. Male of the latter has just presented his yellow-crowned mate with a Two Dinopium and two Melanerpes, but has only rarelyīeen reported for the White-naped Woodpecker. Mate-feeding has been observedĪs part of the courtship ritual of only a few picid species, among them Text read: "Courtship displays of woodpeckers feature many elements Yet, although my cover letter described the circumstances, the eventual HBW I felt even luckier when Handbook of the Birds of the World chose to publish this photo.
She had been workingĪ long time to get out the thick grub, and the shot was taken justīefore she shoved the big grub down the youngster's gullet. Red-crowned one was her now full-grown fledgling. The yellow-crowned female was feeding the red-crowned bird. But these were not a "pair" in the traditional sense. I felt particularly lucky to photograph this pair of White-naped Woodpecker DR personal total: 116 species (54%), 31 photo'd.216 species worldwide (except Australasia).
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