Notes from the Station

Meet the birds we study in our landbird banding program at Coyote Creek Field Station

Nuttall’s Woodpecker

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Species: Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Most recent capture date: 10/2/21
​Earliest capture date: 8/11/21
Sex: Female
Age: less than six months old

Notes: A special bird for Halloween! This young woodpecker was in the process of molting out her juvenile (red) head feathers and growing in her adult (black, because she is female) head feathers. It just so happens that this process, at the moment we caught her, had resulted in two remaining juvenile feathers that gave her the appearance of having two tiny devil horns.