Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: wood pecker

Photo: A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

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A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

Photo: A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

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A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

Photo: A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

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A female spot breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) at the National Aviary of Colombia.

A collection of more than sixty specimens of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, at Harvard University.

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A collection of more than sixty specimens of critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis, at Harvard University.

A male specimen of a critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis.

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A male specimen of a critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered ivory billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis.

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

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Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

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Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

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Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

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Red-headed woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) feed their young high in the forest canopy at Spring Creek Prairie near Denton, Nebraska.

Picture of a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) at Bayou De View in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.

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A pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) at Bayou De View in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.

Photo: Bird Watchers at Bayou De View in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.

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Bird Watchers at Bayou De View in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas.

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