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Cardinal Woodpecker

Lake Natron October 2014

Cardinal Woodpecker
Hix, 23 Nov 2014
amur leopard and Coelacanth18 like this.
    • Hix
      Lake Natron
      October 2014
      23 Nov 2014
    • Chlidonias
      Note for @Hix - this is actually a pair of Cardinal Woodpeckers Dendropicos [or Chloropicus] fuscescens.
      19 Sep 2021
    • Hix
      Looking in my field guides I have a suspicion this might be a Cardinal female above and Green-backed male below. Cardinals have streaked chests, not spotted like the lower bird.
      19 Sep 2021
    • Chlidonias
      @Hix it has a different "feel" to Green-backed though (in body form). Also the breast markings in Green-backed is individual spotting, whereas in Cardinal it is streaky spotting (i.e. elongated rather than round, which form the streaks rather than being individual separate spots as in Green-backed), and Green-backed don't have the ladder markings on the back and wings.
      19 Sep 2021
    • Hix
      Having looked in HBW since my last post I have to agree - Cardinals seem to have some variation across their range and this male seems to be like one of the subspecies of Cardinals.
      19 Sep 2021
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