ML618947745
Red-naped x Red-breasted Sapsucker (hybrid) Sphyrapicus nuchalis x ruber
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult Female - 1; Adult Male - 1
- Behaviors
- Courtship, display, or copulation
Media notes
The male hybrid made a repeated soft crooning sound, and the female joined him on this branch for mating. This is only a yard or two from their probable nest hole.
Observation details
Hybrid male and female copulating after male crooned sweetly repeatedly to summon her; a while later the female worked on their nest hole, and climbed around the tree looking into other nest holes. She made some territorial gestures toward a white-breasted nuthatch male who was carrying food to the tree (where w.b. nuthatches were also nesting last summer) and grew agitated. Once she had become irritated by this nuthatch, she even seemed a little displeased with the downy woodpecker female working on her nest hole one tree over in the same glade, and I left to avoid any chance of increasing her upset.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS R7
- Lens
- RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 31666/39582501 sec
- Dimensions
- 1767 pixels x 2651 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.33 MB