2026-05-01 04:46 UTC
Big news! Did you know that juvenile hairy woodpeckers sometimes -- "infrequently" — have yellow crowns instead of red? Well, if a person stalking a woodpecker family were lucky enough to see one of these yellow-crowned babies, she'd be able to differentiate it from the red-crowned one and know there were at least two kids in the nest! 🥹
#BirdPhotography #wildForWoodpeckers #oregon #birding
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@dendroica@ecoevo.social 2026-05-01 15:19
@faerye@pie.gd I saw one of these yellow-crowned juvies a few years ago in Silverton! Very surprising- I really tried to make it into a Three-toed instead of a Hairy.
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@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden 2026-05-01 18:01
@faerye@pie.gd I did not know this!! How wonderful to see them. 😍🥹