Woodpeckers Classified!

March 07-03

MOST DETAILED RESPONSE:  This is a woodpecker of the Ladder-backed variety. More specifically a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. There are very few woodpeckers that have the distinctive red patch on both their crown AND under the chin/neck area. Also the longitudinal wing stripe is characteristic to the sapsucker family.
ADDED INFO:  It’s a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. My book states the male is the only Missouri woodpecker with a red chin patch.

IMG_6038Pileated Woodpecker

The responses here were not as detailed or as formal, but those who responded were unanimous in the classification.


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One response to “Woodpeckers Classified!”

  1. Indeed, that is also a woodpecker, in particular a Pileated Woodpecker.