Originally posted 3/20/2010 - backdated to organize posts by topic.
PicidPics features photos of picids, including woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks by Martjan Lammertink and Julio Pérez Cañestro. The site also features photos of woodpecker researchers in the field and photos of secondary cavity users.
Photo © Martjan Lammertink, posted here with permission.
This photo shows the bird's pale creamy mantle in excellent detail. The male has a bright red head with black and white marks at the lower rear edge of its ear coverts. Like some Campephilus relatives, the Cream-backed Woodpecker has a striking chisel-shaped, ivory-colored bill.
You can also see here the long toe that the large Campephilus woodpeckers extend to their side to secure their stance against a tree. It's a good brace against gravity! You'd probably extend your arms out to either side like this if you found yourself braced against a cliff on a narrow ledge.
The Cream-backed Woodpecker inhabits subtropical and dry tropical forests in south central South America in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Unlike several of its close relatives, this species occurs in savannas, and it can be observed visiting isolated trees in open areas.
4 comments:
That's a super bird and one I would like to see one day. Thanks for the info.
...you have a lot of cool info here. I really like all the photos, paintings, and drawings you've pulled together. This guy in this photo is a true beauty.
Thank you both! It makes me glad to hear that you are enjoying my effort to present excellent materials on these birds in one place.
The Cream Backed is absolutely gorgeous.The marking on its ear coverts is so unique. Just lovely.
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