{"id":749,"date":"2011-08-19T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T00:30:17","slug":"red-bellied-woodpecker-melanerpes-carolinus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/birds\/red-bellied-woodpecker-melanerpes-carolinus\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Order:<\/strong> Piciformes, \u00a0Family:<\/strong> Picidae<\/p>\n

Appearance\/Behavior<\/strong>: This woodpecker (about 24 cm) has black-and-white barring along the back, providing a \u201cladder-back\u201d appearance (blue arrow).\u00a0 Breast feathers are light gray with a slightly reddish appearance on the belly (although the latter is not readily apparent when viewing a bird in the field).\u00a0 Both the male and female red-bellied woodpeckers have deep red along the nape <\/a>(red arrow), with this coloration extending continuously over the head to the base of the bill in the male. The one documented encounter at the compost piles involved a single female.<\/p>\n

Relative Frequency of Visitation in Study<\/strong>: A rare visitor, with just several encounters.<\/p>\n

Seasonal Activity<\/strong>: Potentially year-round.\u00a0 Visitation documented in winter.<\/p>\n

Daily Activity<\/strong>:\u00a0 Strictly diurnal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Similar Species<\/strong>:\u00a0 The red-bellied woodpecker\u2019s red coloration on the head and extensive black-and-white barring along the back distinguish it from other birds seen at the compost piles.\u00a0 The only other woodpecker observed directly at the piles is the smaller downy woodpecker<\/a>, which has a black and white facial markings and a central white patch on its back.\u00a0 Both these plumage features are lacking in the red-bellied.\u00a0 The pileated woodpecker<\/a>, much larger and darker that the red-bellied, has been documented in the vicinity of the piles, but not directly on them.\u00a0 Other woodpecker species which are similar to the red-bellied and occur at the study site, but which have not been encountered at the piles, include the northern flicker<\/a> (Colaptes auratus<\/em>), the hairy woodpecker<\/a> (Picoides villosus<\/em>), and the yellow-bellied sapsucker<\/a> (Sphyrapicus vairus<\/em>). \u00a0Neither of the first two species has as much red on the head or the substantial black-and-white barring on the back seen in the red-bellied woodpecker.\u00a0 The sapsucker lacks red plumage on the nape<\/a> and has a distinctive broad, white stripe running along the wings front edge.<\/p>\n

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Order: Piciformes, \u00a0Family: Picidae Appearance\/Behavior: This woodpecker (about 24 cm) has black-and-white barring along the back, providing a \u201cladder-back\u201d appearance (blue arrow).\u00a0 Breast feathers are light gray with a slightly reddish appearance on the belly (although the latter is not readily apparent when viewing a bird in the field).\u00a0 Both the male and female red-bellied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":214,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions\/1445"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/compostvisitation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}