Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).
The only midwestern woodpecker with a head that’s red from nape to throat.
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The following Cornell Lab | Macaulay Library recordings were used in this episode:
- Red-headed woodpecker "WEIRD!" call by Geoffrey A. Keller ( ML507275)
- Red-headed woodpecker staccato call by Benjamin Clock (ML507273)
- Red-headed woodpecker "hoarse laugh" with hammering by Robert C. Stein and William W. H. Gunn (ML507276)
- Red-headed woodpecker hammer by Geoffrey A. Keller (ML507277)
Sources and more:
- https://www.fs.usda.gov/database/feis/animals/bird/meer/all.html#57
- https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-headed_Woodpecker
- https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/red-headed-woodpecker
- Dobson, Colin et al. Field Guide to Hotspots and Birds in Illinois. Champaign-Urbana: Scissortail LLC, 2023. Print.
- Godfrey, Michael A, John Farrand, and Roger Tory Peterson. Videoguide to the Birds of North America. New York, N.Y: MasterVision, 1985. Film.
- Peterson, Roger Tory, and Virginia Marie Peterson. A Field Guide to the Birds: A Completely New Guide to All the Birds of Eastern and Central North America. Fourth edition, completely revised and enlarged. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Print.
- Sibley, David. Sibley Birds East: Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America. Second edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Print.
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