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Photographs
- © Walter Bauer, Sugar Land, Texas - 1998
Field
Marks: A 'zebra-backed' woodpecker with a white rump, pale
underparts, red cap. Whole crown and nape are scarlet red in the male. The
female is red on nape only. Juvenal is patterned like adult but has a brown
head, often devoid of red.
Voice: Note is a churr or chaw; also,
chiv, chiv. Also has a muffled flicker-like series.
Where found: Great Lakes area to
Florida and Gulf Coast.
Texas: Resident from East Texas west
to the Panhandle, San Angelo and Austin and south to the central coast.
Habitat: Woodlands, groves, towns.
Nest: In hole in a tree. Eggs are (4-5) white.