Black-backed Woodpecker

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In yesterday’s Tuesday Tweet, I shared an image from a glass plate negative of a Black-backed Woodpecker from June of 1902. The images were from a series of negatives Thomas Sadler Roberts produced on his collecting trip to Lake Itasca…


Tuesday Tweet: A Peek of the Beak

– Arctic Woodpecker [Black-backed Woodpecker], Lake Itasca, June 1902. On a sunny June afternoon in 1902, Thomas Sadler Roberts captured this Black-backed Woodpecker peeking out of it’s nesting place in the hole of this tree near Lake Itasca in…