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Cream-backed Woodpecker vs Guayaquil Woodpecker

Cream-backed Woodpecker (Campephilus leucopogon)

Cream-backed Woodpecker

Campephilus leucopogon

Medium249 gWoodland

The cream-backed woodpecker is 28 to 30 cm (11 to 12 in) long and weighs 203 to 281 g (7.2 to 9.9 oz). Adult males have a crest; their head, crest, and neck are entirely red but for a small black and white spot on the ear coverts. Adult females have a longer crest than males and do not have the covert spot. They have a creamy band from the bill to the ear coverts with black above it that surrounds the eye and extends along the front of the crest, and also a thinner black line below the creamy band. The rest of their head is red and their neck is black.

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Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Guayaquil Woodpecker (Campephilus gayaquilensis)

Guayaquil Woodpecker

Campephilus gayaquilensis

Medium241 gWoodland

The Guayaquil woodpecker is 32 to 34 cm (13 to 13 in) long and weighs 230 to 253 g (8.1 to 8.9 oz). Both sexes' upperparts are black from their neck to upper back; their lower back to the uppertail coverts is barred with whitish buff and blackish. Their neck has white stripes on the side that continue onto the upper back and meet as a "V". Their wings' upper surface is brownish black to black; the flight feathers are browner with small cinnamon or buff spots on their inner webs.

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Photo: Ben Tavener from Curitiba, Brazil · CC BY 2.0

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