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ForestCavity nestMedium · 200 g
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This is a medium-sized (31 cm), dark woodpecker. It is dark brown in color with red-tipped feathers. It has white spots on the primaries. The head is a paler brown, with a dark red crown on the male and a blackish-brown one on the female. The call is a sharp whit call and a variable kyu-kyu kup kup kup or kyu kyu kup.
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When to see the Okinawa Woodpecker
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Okinawa Woodpecker
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Okinawa Woodpecker
The Okinawa woodpecker is a woodpecker endemic to the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan.
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Easily confused with
White-winged WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucopterusThe white-winged woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
Sind WoodpeckerDendrocopos assimilisSind woodpeckers are similar to Syrian woodpecker in appearance, but is slightly smaller (20–22 cm, versus 23 cm), with a thin moustachial stripe, and extensive white feathers on their back and smaller beak.
Stripe-breasted WoodpeckerDendrocopos atratusAdult length is between 21 and 22 cm (8.3 and 8.7 in).
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