Lineated Wood Pecker at Aqua Nicaragua.avi

The Lineated Woodpecker is 34 cm long and weighs 200 g. It resembles the closely-related Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) of North America.

Adults are mainly black above, with a red crest and whitish lines down the sides of the throat and shoulders. The underparts are white, heavily barred with black. They show white on the wings in flight. Adult males have a red line from the bill to the throat and red on the front of the crown. In adult females, these plumage features are black. The bill is black in both sexes.

The call of this widespread but wary bird is a loud, ringing wic-wic-wic. Both sexes drum.

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