I decided to post this photo of a male Hairy Woodpecker so you could see the difference between the Hairy shown here and the Downy Woodpecker I posted yesterday. I know it is difficult to determine scale from the two images, but the Hairy Woodpecker is actually larger (though photographed further away). Obvious is the size difference in the beak - the Hairy having the longer beak of the two. Both the Hairy and the Downy males have a red occipital patch whereas the females do not.
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