#lewis woodpecker

[birdblues]

Lewis' Woodpecker

[scottpartridge]

More designs for Lillooet Brewing Company : Calliope Hummingbird, Northern Pygmy Owl, Clark’s Nutcracker, Lewis’ Woodpecker,  Long-Billed Curlew

[coloradomcpoeticslave]

Recordando el Pasado // Remembering the Past: A Dia de los Muertos 2022 poetry

Recordando el Pasado // Remembering the Past: A Dia de los Muertos 2022 poetry

By Daniel Paiz The time has come to once again remember the past and reflect on who is still around, and who is not. Dia de los Muertos offers one the time to not only reflect sadly on lost loved ones, but to also recall what made us smile. What made us enjoy that person, enjoy our time with them, and enjoy things today even without said person present. Grief is something that develops…

[fatchance]

Recent birds: A very shy Lewis's woodpecker / carpintero de Lewis (Melanerpes lewis) at Santa Rita Lodge in Madera Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona.

Once again, for me the honorific poses problems. The bird is named for Meriwether Lewis, who "discovered" it during his western expedition with William Clark. Both men were slave owners - a sufficient disqualifying mark, in my opinion - but the assumption of naming rights based on so-called discovery is laughable. How do you discover something the local indigenous folks have known for millennia? Why equate discovery with description?

The woodpecker has a few characteristics that would lend themselves to a good honest bird name. It is the only pink and green woodpecker I know of. And unlike most woodpeckers it behaves more like a crow in flight, and like a flycatcher in its feeding habits. There are plenty of birdish possibilities that don't require honoring the dishonorable. What's your suggestion?

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Lewis's Woodpecker

Photo: Dean Hester

"One of our oddest woodpeckers (and not only because of its colors, which include pink, silver, and oily green). Although it climbs trees in woodpecker style, it feeds mostly by catching insects in acrobatic flight: swooping out from a perch like a flycatcher, circling high in the air like a swallow. Wide rounded wings give it a more buoyant flight than most woodpeckers. In fall, Lewis's Woodpecker chops up acorns and other nuts, stores them in crevices, then guards the storage area for its winter food supply. Discovered on the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, and named for the expedition's co-leader."

- Audubon Field Guide

[rockerbobb]

Largest watercolor I’ve done so far, a gift for my ornithology professor

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) © Barry Kent MacKay

It hatches from conspicuous, dark, glossy, green, human, large, open, pink, red, social, and unique eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

[herpsandbirds]

Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis), family Picidae, Colorado, USA

photograph via:

https://www.centralcoloradoconservancy.org/

[lifewithchronicpain]

Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna's Hummingbird, Gambel's Quail, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bewick's Wren, Bullock's Oriole, and more. That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary. "Names have power and power can be for the good or it can be for the bad," says Colleen Handel, the society's president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska. "We want these names to be powerful in a really good way."

The move comes as part of a broader effort to diversify birding and make it more welcoming to people of all races and backgrounds. "We've come to understand that there are certain names that have offensive or derogatory connotations that cause pain to people, and that it is important to change those, to remove those as barriers to their participation in the world of birds," she says. The project will begin next year and initially focus on 70 to 80 bird species that occur primarily in the United States and Canada. That's about 6 or 7 percent of the total species in this geographic region. (Read more at link)

As a birder, I like the idea. Descriptive names are helpful in birdwatching. And as the article explained, some names have already been changed like a longspur named after a confederate general. It's not like the birds care what they are named, any preference for current names is just sentimentality on our part.

[heatherwitch]

Western Wood-Pewee + Cedar Waxwing

Lewis’s Woodpecker + Eastern Kingbird

Osprey + Ring-necked Duck

Cedar Waxwing + American Goldfinch

Black-capped Chickadee + Downy Woodpecker

[gravitasmalfunction]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

Thank you for tagging me @yletylyf!

3 ships you like: I'm going to go general rather than specific here - competent by nature, codependent by choice x (n>=2) - obviously we're not in love this is just an arranged marriage I just happen to refuse to abandon no matter what - a: oh no, b is hot. i must keep this realisation a secret and take it to my grave

First ship ever: Eowyn/Faramir (from the books! I still haven't seen the movies! Miranda Otto and David Wenham are unbearably hot and I love them but I am very committed to the balcony scene I reenacted in my head hundreds of times as a young teen)

Last song you heard: Scenes from a Separation, Darren Hanlon, because it was an earworm and then because I found it on YT for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3M9fetmao

Favourite childhood book: (only one? no no no. books plural, a curated selection, in roughly chronological order) The Hobbit A Year and a Day by Monica Furlong The Magician's Nephew by CS Lewis The Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a trilogy in five parts) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

Currently reading: Just finished Still Life With Woodpecker, and before that Faro's Daughter. Haven't picked up another book yet (currently studying: the HSK1 word list)

Currently watching: Rising Feather (dubcon! abs! revenge!) The Romance of Tiger and Rose (the plot workshopping is coming from inside the narrative!)

Currently consuming: Decaf instant coffee, fruit bread and butter with cherry jam

Current craving: roof insulation

Hmm drama enjoyers to tag, let's see: @golgafrincham @heyyo-heyyo @stayg6ld @planb-is-in-effect @cairthe-deactivated @invisiblerhythmcat @tockamybeloved @dannysbian @shan190811 and you, the tumblr user who is looking at this right now and in the mood to do a meme, yes you, do the meme. tell 'em I tagged you xxoo

[birdblues]

Lewis’s Woodpecker

[wingedjewels]

Lewis's Woodpecker by tjkashuba

[klemannlee]

Lewis's Woodpecker

[greendomine]

Good day my name is Meriwether Laudanum Syphilis Woodpecker Lewis and i have short ash brown hair (from my father, who i get my name from) with gray roots and brown tips that reaches my mid-forehead and muddy hazel eyes like the misissipi river and a lot of people tell me i look like Thomas Jefferson (A/N: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Mahlon Dickerson but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm a Virginian but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also a Captain, and I'm on a magic expedition called the Corps of Discovery in the Louisiana Territory where I'm in the first year (I'm thirty). I'm a hypochondriac (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. I love my tailor and I buy all my clothes from him. For example today I was wearing a black coat with matching lace around it and a black cotton waistcoat, white breeches and black riding boots. I was wearing a black chapeau bras hat, a white cravat, black coal tar and red blush. I was walking outside Fort Mandan. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of privates stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.

"Hey Lewis!" shouted a voice. I looked up. It was.... William Clark!

"What's up Clark?" I asked.

"Nothing." he said shyly.

But then, I heard my inferiors call me and I had to go away.

[gunelle]

Photos and texts: @ladzinski

1-. Goodbye for now France

2-. Lightning striking over Longmont, Colorado under falling stars exaggerated from a long exposure

3-. @annaehrgott walking on the water here in Iceland

4-. A becoming beam of the northern lights pointing towards the summit of a remote tower in Eastern Greenland

5-. A Cape White Eye is a small finch like bird lightning quick, and with the most peculiar white eyed pattern

6-. A Cape White Eye starring me down in the Hex Valley in South Africa

7-. A cracked sky raining beams of light down onto the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania

8-. A huge lighting striking and falling rain over Longmont, Colorado

9-. A lone barn iluminated at the foot of the Mission Mountains near nine pipes. Montana

10-. A Lillac Breasted Roller warming up with the first kiss of light at sunrise

11-. A Lewis Woodpecker giving me a quick glance before flying away. I spotted this guy in the Lee Mercalf Wildlife Preserce in Montana while scouting around, a place I have to get back to

12-. A male Common House Finch

13-. A Sandhill Crane in flight cruising over the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge near Stevensville, Montana

14-. A classic Colorado alpine scene of wild flowers ands cascades in Yankee Boy Basin in the Uncompahgre Mountains located in the San Juan Range

15-. Big Sur dive bomber