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BLACK-BODIED WOODPECKER Dryocopus schulzi CHACO NEAR THREATENED
This large and rarely-encountered woodpecker was for a long time considered conspecific with the Lineated Woodpecker. However the ranges of the two overlap widely in the Chaco and the habitat requirements of this species are far more specific. It is a large woodpecker and it will come as no surprise that his wholly black body is the best means of recognising him!
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FIGURE 1 - Adult male lateral view, Fortín Toledo, Departamento Boquerón (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 2 - Same individual frontal view (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 3 - Adult female, location unknown (Alberto Esquivel undated).
FIGURE 4 - Adult dorsal male, Fortín Toledo, Departamento Boquerón (Paul Smith October 2007).
FIGURE 5 - Same individual dorso-lateral view (Jerry Cooper October 2007).
FIGURE 6 - Adult male dorsal view, Fortín Toledo, Departamento Boquerón (Jonathan Newman October 2009).
FIGURE 7 - Same individual lateral view (Jonathan Newman October 2009).
FIGURE 8 - Same individual as Fig 5 in flight (Jerry Cooper October 2007).
VIDEO - Same individual as Figs 1&2 (Paul Smith October 2007).
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Dryocopus schulzi
1 drumming recorded Fortín Toledo, Departamento Boquerón (Paul Smith October 2009).
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