THE REDBELLIED WOODPECKER 



Woodpecker Family — Picidce 



Length: About 9^4 inches. 



Male: Crown of head and back of neck bright red, resembling 

 slightly that of the red-headed woodpecker, but 

 throat and cheeks gray; back and wings barred with 

 white, the barring reminding one of the flicker. 

 Under parts gray washed with red; tail black and 

 white; upper tail-coverts white, streaked with black. 



Female: Crown gray, nostrils and neck bright red. 



Kotes: Mr. Frank Chapman writes of this woodpecker: "It 

 ascends a tree in a curious, jerky fashion, accom- 

 panying each upward move by a hoarse chu-chu. It 

 also utters k-r-r-r-ring roll and, when mating, a 

 whicker call like that of the Flicker." ^ 



Habitat: Open woods of deciduous trees and conifers; also 

 groves of live-oak, palmettoes, and other southern 

 trees, where these birds may be seen in company 

 with flickers. 



IRange: From southern Canada and eastern United States 

 southward; abundant in the Southern States; rare in 

 New England; is found in western New York and 

 south-western Pennsylvania, and Delaware, south to 

 central Texas and the Gulf States. 



PROFESSOR DEAL made the following report re- 

 garding this woodpecker: "The red-bellied wood- 

 pecker ranges over the eastern United States as far west 

 as central Texas and eastern Colorado and as far north as 



1 From "Birds of Eastern North America," by Frank M. Chapman, used 

 with permission of D. Appleton & Co. 



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