Confrontation in the desert...

Photo by Rick & Nora Bowers /Alamy Stock Photo

A bigger and heavier Gila Woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) prepares to unseat a Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) from a perch at Amado (halfway between Tucson and Nogales on the Mexican border) in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, US.
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