Originally posted 3/22/11 - backdated to organize posts by topic.
Silvia Vitale was kind enough to grant permission for me to post these excellent photos she took of a female Cream-backed Woodpecker. She took them at La Cumbre, Cordoba Province, Argentina near the village. As you see here, the female sports a striking, white moustachial stripe adjacent to her ivory bill. The male bird's head is almost entirely red. Cream-backed Woodpeckers inhabit xeric (dry) woodlands of the chaco habitat in southern-central parts of South America, occurring in savannas, pastures with copses, groves, woodland and transitional forests, up to 2,500m.*
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