Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Picoides borealis

Order

PICIFORMES

Family

Woodpeckers (Picidae)

Code 4

RCWO

Code 6

PICBOR

ITIS

HEAD

Bill Shape: Dagger, All-purpose
Eye Color: Dull brown with cream-yellow outer ring in fledglings, which fades to smoke gray by the end of first year. Adults with dark brown iris may become gray-yellow and/or show a lighter halo in older adults.
Head Pattern: Capped, Malar or malar stripe
Crown Color: Black
Forehead Color: Black
Nape Color: Black
Throat Color: White
Cere color: No Data

BODY

Length Range: 22 cm (8.5 in)
Weight: 45 g (1.6 oz)
Size: 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color Primary: White, Black
Underparts: White with black spotting.
Upperparts: Black and white barred.
Back Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Belly Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Breast Pattern: Spotted or speckled

FLIGHT

Flight Pattern: Alternates several rapid wing beats with short glide with wings partially folded to sides, producing up-and-down flight.
Wingspan Range: 41 cm (16 in)
Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
Tail Shape: Fan-shaped Tail
Tail Pattern: Spotted
Upper Tail: Black with white spotted outer feathers.
Under Tail: Black and white.
Leg Color: Black

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