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Red-headed Woodpecker

Melanerpes erythrocephalus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a mid-sized woodpecker found in temperate North America. Its breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the east-central United States. It is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species, having been down-listed from near threatened in 2018.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 903,053Canada · 29,434