Three Deceptively Similar Woodpeckers (IMAGE)

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Three Deceptively Similar Woodpeckers

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Dryocopus galeatus (left) appears remarkably similar to Dryocopus lineatus erythrops (center) and Campephilus robustus (right), but it's only a distant relative.

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K. Zimmer and R.J. Moller

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