Red-bellied Woodpecker (species: Melanerpes carolinus) in taxonomy (Gaia Guide)
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Melanerpes carolinus
Red-bellied Woodpecker


©Lip Kee Yap: Melanerpes carolinus

©Vitalii Khustochka: Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)

©Ken Thomas: Male

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Piciformes
Family Picidae
Genus Melanerpes
Species Melanerpes carolinus
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Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Up to 27 cm (Length of specimen)

Wingspan

  • Up to 46 cm

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Distribution

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Recorded at Sequoyah NWR, OK in United States.

© Peter Boesman
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Diet

It uses its bill for foraging as a chisel drilling into bark or probing cracks on trunk of trees. In this manner, it is able to pull out beetles and other insects from the tree with the help of its long tongue. (Wikipedia)

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