Female Red-bellied Woodpecker

This Red-bellied Woodpecker shows only a hint of its faint red belly but otherwise gives us a lot of feather detail and a great view of its red eyes. They can pull insects out of crevices with their long barbed tongues and break open nuts with their beak.

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