nesting red-bellied woodpecker?

[ronbco]

A friend of mine has seen and photographed the female red-bellied woodpecker at Walden Ponds twice in the past couple days. Other birders have reported it on ebird as well. He has seen it go into a tree cavity.

I guess I need some education on this finding. One web source said that they don't nest in CO. Certainly the range map doesn't reflect that.

Does a confirmed nesting of a species in a state change it's designation in some way?

Ron Bolton

Berthoud

[Peter Gent]

Ron,

Red-bellied Woodpeckers nest along the eastern border of Colorado.  They can be found in reasonable numbers in the NE (Tamarack Ranch), E (Bonny Res), and the SE (Lamar and other places).  See the concentrations in these areas on the ebird map at   https://ebird.org/species/rebwoo 

No-one has seen a male bird in the Walden Ponds area this winter (as far as I am aware), so I think it's a bit early to presume the female is nesting there.

Cheers,  Peter Gent.

Boulder,  CO.

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[Douglas Kibbe]

With due respect to ebird and all who use it rather than reference books, I would suggest that one consult the Colorado breeding bird atlas if you are wondering about the breeding status and nesting distribution on any species in the state.

Doug Kibbe

Littleton

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[David Suddjian]

I like to make regular use of the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas II text. One plus for eBird is that it is readily at hand for anyone, and (as far as the mapped distributions go) it has much more data and is more current. For the Red-bellied, both atlas and eBird sort of show the same thing (RBWO occur mostly in the NE part of Colorado, but eBird gives a richer picture, especially in showing the general river corridor patterns

Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas II

eBird species map for the nesting months of May, June and July

David Suddjian

Littleton