Guayaquil Woodpecker vs Red-necked Woodpecker

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

Red-necked Woodpecker

Campephilus rubricollis

Medium211 gForest

The red-necked woodpecker is about 30 to 35 cm (12 to 14 in) long and weighs 178 to 236 g (6.3 to 8.3 oz). Both sexes of the nominate subspecies C. r. rubricollis have black to brownish black upperparts. Their wings' upper surface is black with rufous on the flight feathers' inner vanes. The wings' underside is rufous with a blackish trailing edge and feather tips. Their tail is black above and brownish black below. Their underparts are bright red on the breast becoming rufous to rufous cinnamon at the vent.

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Photo: Vincent A. Vos · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Guayaquil Woodpecker and Red-necked Woodpecker.