Maria’s Woodpecker, Three-toed Woodpecker, Phillips’ Woodpecker, Canadian Woodpecker, Harris’s Woodpecker, Audubon’s Woodpecker

Plate 417
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Hairy Woodpecker
Dryobates villosus
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This species and the Downy Woodpecker are remarkably similar in pattern, differing mainly in size and bill shape. They often occur together, but the Hairy, a larger bird, requires larger trees; it is usually less common, especially in the east, and less likely to show up in suburbs and city parks. In its feeding it does more pounding and excavating in trees than most smaller woodpeckers, consuming large numbers of wood-boring insects.
American Three-toed Woodpecker
Picoides dorsalis
Guide
Often quiet and inconspicuous, and may perch motionless against a tree trunk for minutes at a time, making it easy to overlook. In some places the Three-toed Woodpecker provides the most effective control of the spruce bark beetle, a major forest pest.
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Hairy Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-shafted Woodpecker, Lewis' Woodpecker, Red-breasted Woodpecker
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American Ptarmigan and White-tailed Grous
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