Mystery bird: Nuttall's woodpecker, Picoides nuttallii, photographed in southern California, USA.
Image: Steve Duncan, 2010 [larger view]
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This post was amended on 27 September. The original mistakenly identified the mystery bird as a Downy woodpecker, Picoides pubescens. This has been corrected.