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Alicia BRYANT

8 Years Ago

Help With Bird Id Please.

I photographed this guy last weekend, and have posted to my bird groups, and asked local birders for assistance in Identifying it.

Size: About the same size as an adult Red-Headed woodpecker
Location: Sumter, South Carolina (Southeast)

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I have photographed at least 5 different woodpecker species in this same area including: Red-Bellied, Pileated, Red-headed, Downy, Hairy. I was about 100 Yards from a red-headed woodpecker nest, and I have seen Red-bellied and pileated woodpeckers near the same tree-there were actually both present and I got this guy while photographing juvenile red-bellies, and I could hear a pileated close by. I looked at red-head juvenile photographs and am not convinced. After inspection, looking at his beak shap, I am not 100% sure it is a woodpecker, which leaves me at alien transplant?

Please help if you can-I love my birds, and like to know whom I am shooting so I know what to put on the shots for ID Purposes.

Thanks in advance.

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Phyllis Beiser

8 Years Ago

Hard to tell from that angle but my best guess would be an immature red-headed woodpecker.

 

Alicia BRYANT

8 Years Ago

I looked at many juvenile red-headed woodpecker photos, and the spotting on this one and the beak just look different to me, I will look again, as since I was close to their nest it would be logical.

 

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