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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanerpes

Fall 2019 various birds

Harrier (click photo for bigger view). Much slimmer than a red tail.

Snow bunting

Barred owl