Sunday 24 March 2013

[Maine-birds] Woodpecker ID

OK, The jury is in--the mystery bird appears to be a Hairy Woodpecker with atypical coloring.  Herb Wilson provided this link to an article he wrote about this very topic.

http://web.colby.edu/mainebirds/2012/10/21/albinism-and-other-feather-oddities/

Thanks to everyone who replied.  Mystery solved!

Julie Krasne

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