A pair of Sooty Woodpeckers [HD]

Check out this pair of Sooty Woodpeckers digiscoped last June in the superb forests of Subic in Luzon. This is a male and female pair, the male bird having a crimson red face while the female has a plain sooty black face. The Sooty Woodpecker is endemic to the Philippines and ranges only in the islands of Luzon, Catanduanes, Marinduque, Polillio, Leyte, Samar and Mindanao. Sooty Woodpeckers, Mulleripicus funebris June 2012, Subic Rainforest, Zambales and Bataan