ML238844851
Downy x Hairy Woodpecker (hybrid) Dryobates pubescens x villosus
Contributor
Kate E Magoon Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
West County Trail - Green Valley Road to Forestville
Sonoma, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
I originally meant to mark this as either/or not hybrid, but am leaving it because I'm not sure how to place it. Not much white spotting on wings suggests interior Hairy. The beak looks as long as a Hairy's to me, the coffee coloring on the chest could suggest immature, but not sure what to do with the prominent dark spots on white tail feathers. Would an immature Hairy ever have tail spots that distinct? There do appear to be cases of hybridization: https://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/archive/V46/46(1)-p002-p007.pdf. There are also subspecies of Hairy with spotted tails (such a Queen Charlotte), but this one lacks any other features of that subspecies. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e07d/c8ea1232ff9bb3885382fdd9d3ef6c8a6b6c.pdf
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3400
- Lens
- 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-6.3
- ISO
- 450
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2969 pixels x 1979 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.72 MB