Surrey UK Red stripe on head (1 Viewer)

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crouchi

New member

• Jul 24, 2005

• #1

Can anyone identify a bird with a broad red stripe on its head for me? - about the size of a starling with light brown plumage, red stripe across the top of its head, not a cap, on the grass in the garden yesterday morning!

I have looked at pictures Redpolls (too small) and Linnetts (closer, but beak was much finer like a thrush)

 

yorkshire83

Rob Hunton

• Jul 24, 2005

• #2

How about a green woodpecker? I know you said it was brown though

 

Rob Smallwood

Well-known member

• Jul 24, 2005

• #3

Could it have been a Green Woodpecker? Larger than a Starling, and much larger than the finches that you have looked up but one of the few birds with red on its head.

If it was finch sized then Goldfinch might be a better bet.

 

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crouchi

New member

• Jul 24, 2005

• #4

Green Woodpecker!

Well, it LOOKED brown, but now I've checked it out on the database, it's got to have been a Green Woodpecker, as the beak is just right. Thanks.