Woodpeckers of the World: The Complete GuideBloomsbury Publishing, 2014 M06 19 - 448 páginas The first definitive photographic guide to woodpeckers, covering all 239 species. Woodpeckers remain one of the most popular families of birds, and they are certainly one of the more unusual. Their legendary ability to excavate holes in wood is well known, and they are uniquely adapted for living in trees - though a few species have become more adapted to ground-dwelling. The family ranges from the tiny piculets of tropical forests to the mighty Imperial Woodpecker of Mexico, sadly now extinct. In between there is a considerable variety of species, all of a roughly similar shape and design, inhabiting forests and woodlands through the world except Australasia and Antarctica. Detailed text looks in detail at the biology of the birds, with particular emphasis on field identification, along with voice, habitat, status, racial variation and distribution. The text is accompanied by a series of high-quality photographs – more than 750 images, carefully selected to highlight identification criteria. Each species entry is completed by an accurate colour range map. A sister to Owls of the World in the Helm Photographic Guides series, Woodpeckers of the World is an informative, fact-filled and beautifully illustrated guide to a group beloved by all birders. |
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Adult male areas Argentina barred black barred white belly bill Bill grey bird black crown blackish Bolivia Brazil breast brown browner brownish chest chocolate cinnamon Colombia considered stable coverts cream Crimson-crested Woodpecker dark darker ear-coverts Ecuador female lacks red finely barred flanks flecked flight feathers Food and foraging forecrown forests Golden-olive Woodpecker Green-backed Woodpecker Grey Woodpecker Habitat high-pitched Identification images information lacking invertebrates Iris chestnut Juvenile Legs grey Legs greyish Lineated Woodpecker Little Woodpecker Lores malar malar stripe male has red mantle mid-crown mixed-species flocks Monotypic neck-sides notes Nubian Woodpecker olive orange overall pale paler patch Peru PICULET Picumnus plantations Range South America red crown red malar Resident and sedentary rufous rump savanna Scroll Sea-level Sexes differ slightly Similar species skip sometimes spotted white Status streaked supercilium tail Taxonomy and variation trees underparts undertail-coverts underwing Uppertail variation Monotypic Venezuela Vocalisations wings woodlands WOODPECKER Dendrocopos WOODPECKER Melanerpes yellow yellowish