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Downy Woodpecker

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AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Size can be hard to gauge in the field. Your pictures make it easy to see bill length in relation to the head. Hairy has a bill as long or slightly longer than the head, where as the bill on this bird is barely half the length of the head.

AshleyHewitt
AshleyHewitt 10 years ago

hmmm ok thanks! This guy was pretty large so I was thinking hairy.

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

A Hairy would have a bill that is about twice as long as the bird shown here.

AshleyHewitt
Spotted by
AshleyHewitt

New Jersey, USA

Spotted on Jan 18, 2014
Submitted on Jan 20, 2014

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