ML615539285
Downy x Nuttall's Woodpecker (hybrid) Dryobates pubescens x nuttallii
Contributor
Steve Summers Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Porterville--our yard
Tulare, California, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Priscilla first spotted this woodpecker in the yard from our dining room and called out Downy Woodpecker. When I first got on it and viewed it from below I too first thought Downy. But it quickly turned its back to us which obviously wasn't a Downy back. I quickly realized that with the barred back and nearly pure white below with no spotting that this was a hybrid Downy x Nuttall's Woodpecker. In size and shape of the bird and its small bill it was more like a Downy Woodpecker. I think its face pattern may be something in between the two species. We couldn't see any indication of a white center to the back as in a Downy Woodpecker. There was no red on the head so we presume it's a female.
Technical information
- Model
- DC-ZS70
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 129 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/7.1
- Shutter speed
- 1/125 sec
- Dimensions
- 2100 pixels x 1400 pixels
- Original file size
- 610.36 KB