dippers
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The attached pictures were taken at Xscaret just south of Playa del Carmen on the east coast of the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico.
They didn't seem to fit either Red-bellied or Golden-fronted woodpeckers images that I could find, but based on a previous thread here
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2036207 and an article in Opus here http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yucatan_Woodpecker
I'm guessing that this is a Yucatan Woodpecker, Melanerpes pygmaeus, subspecies rubricomus.
Can anyone here confirm this for me please - and are the pics of any use in the Opus or elsewhere here?
Many thanks, Martin
They didn't seem to fit either Red-bellied or Golden-fronted woodpeckers images that I could find, but based on a previous thread here
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2036207 and an article in Opus here http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yucatan_Woodpecker
I'm guessing that this is a Yucatan Woodpecker, Melanerpes pygmaeus, subspecies rubricomus.
Can anyone here confirm this for me please - and are the pics of any use in the Opus or elsewhere here?
Many thanks, Martin