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Picoides villosus
Hairy Woodpecker
Mixed boreal forest, this area is a primarily an old birch forest, lots of post mature trees.
Spotted on Sep 5, 2011
Submitted on Sep 5, 2011
4 Comments
@raulalsc,
what you have is an "Acorn wood pecker" and what Bill has is a "Hairy Wood Pecker". They are different species and hence you may not be able to use the same criteria for differentiating between male and female!
This bird looks a little like a Downy's woodpecker.very cute.
How is it different in a male?
She´s a female ! and I have a male woodpecker http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/518...
look at the position of the red spot