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  1. Nutcracker

    Texas: Woodpecker

    Presumably intermediate - which doesn't help here; this bird would be just as odd-looking if it were 200 km east in Red-bellied range and had Red-bellied crown pattern, rather than being in G-f range and having G-f crown pattern. Whether G-f hybridises with other Melanerpes, maybe, but if it...
  2. Nutcracker

    Texas: Woodpecker

    Melanistic tips to the feathers? It's more that the barring you'd expect on the undertail coverts, extends up the whole breast. And then the face is clearly melanistic, but the crown and nape close to how they should be for a male G-fW. It'd be interesting to see what the rump is like (should be...
  3. Nutcracker

    Texas: Woodpecker

    Very strange! Can only think an odd melanistic mutation Golden-fronted Woodpecker.
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