The Downy Woodpecker

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The pubescent Woodpecker

Habitat

Downies take home in the United States and southern Canada. They piddle been recorded at elevations of up to 9,000 feet. The downies are not deep-forested birds, preferring broad-leafed trees. Open woodlands, river groves, orchards, swamps, farmland, and suburban backboneyards are all favorite haunts of the flossy. Downies go forth also nest in city parks. About the only place you wont find them is deserts. The most attractive human inhabitation sites are woodlands broken up by logged patches in a waterside area. Downies also enjoy open shrubbery with groves of young deciduous trees.

Call(s)

Like the short-haired woodpecker, the downy beats a tattoo on a dry resonant tree branch. This drumming is the downys song, though they do make some vocal noises. They have several single-syllable scratch notes which include tchick, an aggressive social note; a tally and a tkhirrr, which are alarm notes. There is also a location call, known as a whinny, made up of a dozen or more tchicks all draw together.

Scientific Names

The downy woodpeckers scientific name is Picoides pubescens.



There are also six particular downies with six particular scientific names all from different regions of the United States and southern Canada which I have listed below:

southern downy / Dryobates pubescens

Gairdners woodpecker / Gairdneri pubescens

Batchelders woodpecker / Leucurus pubescens

northern downy / Medianus pubescens

Nelsons downy / Nelsoni pubescens

willow woodpecker / Turati pubescens

The downy woodpecker is sometimes reffered to as little downy.

Behavior Towards Humans

The downy is unquestionably the friendliest woodpecker. A bird lover in Wisconsin described downies at their feeding station: The downies will back down to the suet container on the basswood...

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