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Volume
42, Number 2,
February 1996:
Backyard Birds
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ISSUE
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ABOUT
THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author
IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- what do you
need to go birding?
- some common
backyard birds
- house finch
- American robin
- house wren
- European
starling
- house sparrow
- black-capped
chickadee
- northern
cardinal
- ruby-throated
hummingbird
- blue jay
- gray catbird
- purple martin
- downy woodpecker
- eastern bluebird
- Baltimore oriole
- American
goldfinch
- the Kansas
winter bird feeder survey
- acknowledgment
- owls
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Backyard
Birds
by Marvin
Schwilling
DOWNY
WOODPECKER
The
downy is our smallest woodpecker, but he resembles his larger
cousin, the hairy woodpecker. The downy's notes are a little
softer and his tapping a little faster with his shorter
bill. His outer tail feathers are barred in contrast to
the hairy's pure white. Both males show a red spot on the
nape which the female does not have. General coloring of
both is black and white.
This
friendly little woodpecker relishes suet at our feeding
stations and also feeds on sunflower seeds and peanut butter.
They also feed on insect larvae that they chisel out of
insect galls on weed stems and from tree branches.
Next:
Eastern Bluebird
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