Sorry to hear that the video was removed. At the time, I looked it up and saw that it belonged to the same genus as the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The Crimson Crested Woodpecker has a rather short tail, which this one had. The subspecies, as depicted in an old woodpecker book I have, was from Colombia. But I'm just trying to remember it off hand.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Kerns" <troublebound at gmail.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:20:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Re: better link for woodpecker ...but NOT a Pileated!

When Linda Bishop originally posted a Youtube link here on Tweeters to
this video last December I believe the location was listed as
somewhere in Central or South America. Unfortunately the original link
was removed from Youtube due to terms of use violation.

Craig Kerns
Lake Forest Park, WA
www.troublebound.smugmug.com

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:44:41 EDT, you wrote:

>Whoa!! What an Incredible piece of footage!! Have no idea what the snake
>is, ...BUT... the woodpecker involved is NOT a Pileated, but rather looks
>to me like an adult male Crimson-crested Woodpecker which is fairly common
>in the western lowland tropics from Panama to Peru.
>
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