About the Yellow-browed Woodpecker
The yellow-browed woodpecker, also known as the white-browed woodpecker, is a Near Threatened species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
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The yellow-browed woodpecker is 21 to 22 cm (8.3 to 8.7 in) long and weighs 22 to 68 g (0.78 to 2.4 oz). Males and females have the same plumage except on their heads. Males are red from forehead to nape, have a narrow yellowish white supercilium, are dark olive green around the eye and onto the side of the neck, and successively below that a pale yellow stripe and a red malar band. Their chin and throat are pale golden. The female has an olive forehead and crown and much less red at the malar. Adults have olive green upperparts.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in October · a resident species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Golden-green WoodpeckerPiculus chrysochlorosThe golden-green woodpecker is 18 to 27 cm (7.1 to 11 in) long and weighs 55 to 91 g (1.9 to 3.2 oz).
White-throated WoodpeckerPiculus leucolaemusThe white-throated woodpecker is about 19 to 20 cm (7.5 to 7.9 in) long and weighs about 69 g (2.4 oz).
Stripe-cheeked WoodpeckerPiculus callopterusThe stripe-cheeked woodpecker is about 17 cm (6.7 in) long.
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