Friday, December 27, 2019

Woodpeckers

Woodpeckers are the most common birds of woodland and also some scrubland and desert in our SW. But when you go out into the woods, it is pretty much the same set for your area. I added a bird, along with 3 other birders, at Schramm park in Sarpy county. One of the visitor center staff found it a week ago. My pictures were rather poor on that cloudy day.



My life list is somewhere over 500. I started to wonder how many woodpeckers it has. It is 14, the last one (Yucatan woodpecker) not documented in eBird. It looks rather ordinary (a typical melanerpes) , here is a borrowed picture.


So it turns out my most exotic locations, Costarica and South Korea yielded no woodpeckers!

Here is my list:


Williamson's Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Lewis's Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Yucatan Woodpecker

The melanerpes family is restricted to North and South America and includes our red-headed and red-bellied woodpeckers:

LINK below

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