Spotting

Description:

Black and white Woodpecker seen in Naples Florida

Habitat:

Wooded area/backyard in a gated community. They prefer pecking around our huge Oak trees. They stay for a few hours and then I don't see them until they returned a few months later. I see a male and female (not sure which is which 😎)

Notes:

Thanks ;)

2 Species ID Suggestions

Jellis 6 years ago

Downy Woodpecker

Picoides pubescens

larkinpb 6 years ago

Hairy Woodpecker

Picoides villosus Hairy Woodpecker, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

6 Comments

Jellis 5 years ago

The best way is the length of the bill. If the bill is almost as long as the width of the head then it is a Hairy. If it is shorter almost half than it is a Downy

live2shell 5 years ago

hmmmm one vote for Hairy and one vote for Downy :)

Jellis 6 years ago

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Down...

Jellis 6 years ago

Males have a red patch on the back of the head and females don't.

Jellis 6 years ago

I am think more like Downy as I don't see any reports of Hairy in your region.

live2shell 6 years ago

Thank you :)

Spotted by
live2shell

Florida, USA

Spotted on Apr 19, 2017
Submitted on Aug 20, 2017

Spotting

Description:

Habitat:

Notes:

2 Species ID Suggestions

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

6 Comments

Florida, USA

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