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Woodpecker Quiz: Hairy or Downy? (1 Viewer)
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Dave B Smith
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Male Hairy.
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Picoides villosus by me, too.
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Bob (Screech),
You made the same mistake I (and the others?) did - the outer tail feather is stuck below the metal bar on the feeder, so what looks like the outer feather on the tail, is actually the second feather.
If you look at the centre of the red ring on Gthang's answer pic, you'll see there is a black spot there on that feather. I guess when I saw the pic first time, I took that for a bird poop.
Michael
You made the same mistake I (and the others?) did - the outer tail feather is stuck below the metal bar on the feeder, so what looks like the outer feather on the tail, is actually the second feather.
If you look at the centre of the red ring on Gthang's answer pic, you'll see there is a black spot there on that feather. I guess when I saw the pic first time, I took that for a bird poop.
Michael
Michael Frankis
conehead
Hi Gthang,gthang said:
I think I'll go Downy on both of them - the right-hand bird is the same size compared to the feeder as the first quiz pic, and the left-hand bird also looks small (and I think I can just see a dark mark on the edge of the tail?)
Michael
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