Today’s bird

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Melanerpes aurifrons

Family: Woodpeckers

Golden-fronted Woodpecker is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.

Did you know

  1. The golden-fronted woodpecker's diet is adult and larval arthropods, some aerial insects, much fruit and nuts, and corn.

  2. Most clutches are of four or five eggs, and both sexes incubate.

  3. In Texas it breeds between March and July, and often produces two broods per year.

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