{"id":1310,"date":"2019-03-23T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2019-03-27T16:19:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:19:51","slug":"downy-or-hairy-woodpecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/downy-or-hairy-woodpecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Downy or Hairy Woodpecker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downy and HairyWoodpecker. I would say, Downy.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"whb\">Look for a key difference in bill size.<\/b> This is the easiest way to tell the two species apart.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Hairy Woodpecker&#8217;s bill is long and chisel-like, and almost the same length as its head.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast, the Downy&#8217;s bill is short and dainty, roughly 1\/3 the length of the bird&#8217;s head.<\/li>\n<li>If this is difficult to gauge, a good trick is to imagine turning each bird&#8217;s bill around, so that it points toward the back of the bird&#8217;s head. How far across the head does it appear to extend? If it is the length of the head, you are looking at a Hairy Woodpecker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/downy_woodpecker_russ_paige_dighton_5.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1308\" src=\"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1514\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9115.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9115-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9115-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9115-1024x730.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/downy_woodpecker_russ_paige_dighton.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1307\" src=\"http:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9108.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9108-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9108-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSC_9108-1024x639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downy and HairyWoodpecker. I would say, Downy. Look for a key difference in bill size. This is the easiest way to tell the two species apart. The Hairy Woodpecker&#8217;s bill is long and chisel-like, and almost the same length as its head. In contrast, the Downy&#8217;s bill is short and dainty, roughly 1\/3 the length &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/downy-or-hairy-woodpecker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Downy or Hairy Woodpecker&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threemileriver.org\/species-mapping\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}