tags: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Red-bellied Woodpecker, Melanerpes carolinus, photographed in the photographer's back yard in Houston, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, March 2010 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/640s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Family Guy, S07E02 'I Dream of Jesus':
Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec?
(Brian gives Peter the paper. Peter peruses the paper.)
Peter: Huh... that's odd... I thought that would big news.
The stiffened tail and black and white barring combined with it being Texan makes me think that this bird has a belly that's incarnadine (in Shakespeare's meaning) and a splintery male reproductive organ...
Ladder backed wood pecker?
Do your incarnadines have barred side tail feathers? From what I can see in ID photos, they don't.
What about a more ...hmmm...chrysaetos-type woodpecker?
never mind, I found better pictures, and they do have barred-side tail feathers.
Oblong â Brick.
Red-bellied Woodpecker: ladder back, white central tail feathers (with the rest of them dark), and the zebra stripe pattern on the wings and back. Also the nape and crown are red.