Black-cheeked Woodpeckers
Member of the Picidae Family: Woodpeckers ... Sapsuckers ... Flickers
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Nesting: It nests in an unlined hole 6-30 m high in a dead tree. The clutch is two to four glossy white eggs, incubated by both sexes.
Description: The adult is 18.5 cm long and weighs 63 g. It has black upperparts with white barring on the back, white spotting on the wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-olive with a red central belly. There is a black patch through the eys and on the cheeks, a yellow forehead, and a red nape. The crown is red in the male and black in the female. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less red on the belly.
Diet: The Black-cheeked Woodpecker feeds on insects, but will take substantial quantities of fruit and nectar.
Call / Song: This common and conspicuous species gives a rattling krrrrrl call and both sexes drum on territory. (Source: Wikipedia.org)
Related Websites: Oiseaux.net ... Mangoverde
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