Lineated Woodpecker
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| Dryocopus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1766) |
The Lineated Woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus) is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird from Mexico south to northern Argentina and on Trinidad.
[edit] Description
The Lineated Woodpecker is 34 cm long and weighs 200 g. It resembles the closely-related Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of North America.
Adults are mainly black above, with a red crest and whitish lines down the sides of the throat and shoulders. The underparts are white, heavily barred with black. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat and red on the front of the crown. In adult females, these plumage features are black. The bill is black in both sexes.
The call of this widespread but wary bird is a loud, ringing wic-wic-wic. Both sexes drum.
Within its range, it might only be confused with the Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos), which has a similar plumage and size. In that species, the light face line is broader, and the white shoulder lines meet on the back; it also has the light-colored bill typical of Campephilus woodpeckers.
[edit] Ecology
The habitat of this species is forest borders and other open woodland. It is not a mountain bird, though it has occasionally been recorded in the uplands (e.g. in the Serranía de las Quinchas of Colombia[1]) Three white eggs are laid in a nest hole is in a dead tree and incubated by both sexes. The young are fed by regurgitation.
Lineated Woodpeckers chip out holes, often quite large, while searching out insects in trees. They mainly eat insects, especially ants and beetle larvae, with some seeds, such as from Heliconia, and fruits, berries and nuts.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Cuervo et al. (2007)
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (BLI) (2008). Dryocopus lineatus. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2008. Retrieved on 22 December 2008.
- Cuervo, Andrés M.; Hernández-Jaramillo, Alejandro; Cortés-Herrera, José Oswaldo & Laverde, Oscar (2007): Nuevos registros de aves en la parte alta de la Serranía de las Quinchas, Magdalena medio, Colombia [New bird records from the highlands of Serranía de las Quinchas, middle Magdalena valley, Colombia]. Ornitología Colombiana 5: 94-98 [Spanish with English abstract]. PDF fulltext
- ffrench, Richard; O'Neill, John Patton & Eckelberry, Don R. (1991): A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd edition). Comstock Publishing, Ithaca, N.Y.. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2
- Hilty, Steven L. (2003): Birds of Venezuela. Christopher Helm, London. ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dryocopus lineatus |
- Lineated Woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
