{"id":34028,"date":"2024-12-03T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34028"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T17:54:34","slug":"pileated-woodpecker-sex-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34028","title":{"rendered":"Pileated Woodpecker, sex of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After showing a male Pileated Woodpecker foraging on a piling a couple of weeks ago &lt;https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33997&gt;, Cynthia found another foraging pileated. This new one was a female. So, I am showing both.<\/p>\n<p>First, I will reproduce the male from the two-weeks old posting. It has a reddish malar strip (from bill down to neck). Its red cap also extends to its bill.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34001\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/pileatedwoodpecker241116as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, here is Cynthia&#8217;s shot of the female from the latest observation. The malar strip is black (not reddish) and the red crest stops above the eye. The darker eye colour seems to be only a result of the age of the bird, not its sex.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34030\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pileatedwoodpecker241201ccfs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This shot of the female shows the red crest stopping well above the bill, and the dark malar strip. But, the real reason it is included is that it is an unusual view.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34029\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/pileatedwoodpecker241201as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After showing a male Pileated Woodpecker foraging on a piling a couple of weeks ago &lt;https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33997&gt;, Cynthia found another foraging pileated. This new one was a female. So, I am showing both. First, I will reproduce the male from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34032,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34028\/revisions\/34032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}