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Downy Woodpecker
New York is blessed with a great diversity of woodpecker species, including such fancy ones as Pileated and Black-backed Woodpeckers--the latter, a boreal forest specialist, will be one of the "target birds" on our May 29 field trip to Ferd's Bog.
Our area's most abundant woodpecker is also the smallest in North America, the Downy Woodpecker.
Here's a fact to make you a success at your next cocktail party: Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers are named for the texture of their back feathers, which are finer and softer in Downy and coarser and stiffer in its larger cousin. |
Posted: 1:14 PM, Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Recent Sightings |
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