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Photo by J. Simbaña
The Powerful Woodpecker was named long ago, in 1845 by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a French naturalist and ornithologist who was the nephew of famed Emperor Napoleon.
These 165 years later, very little is known about the breeding biology of this bird, an uncommon resident of montane regions from Venezuela to Peru (according to the article cited herein). The remarkable photos you see here are two of several within an article entitled First description of the eggs and nestlings of Powerful Woodpecker (Campephilus pollens) by Harold F. Greeney, Jose Simbaña & Lucia A. Salazar-V., and published February 26, 2010 in Boletín SAO in which the authors state:
Here we present the first observations, from north-eastern Ecuador,
on the eggs and nestlings of this poorly known species.
on the eggs and nestlings of this poorly known species.
The full-text article, including its amazing photos, is freely available online under Creative Commons license. The two photos here were taken by J. Simbaña and are posted here with permission.
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Photo by J. Simbaña
1 comments:
This is a significant post. It's always important when new information is gleaned about animal behavior in the wild - especially breeding behavior.
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