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Black-backed Woodpecker

Picoides arcticus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus), also known as the Arctic three-toed woodpecker, is a medium-sized woodpecker (23 cm (9. 1 in) long) inhabiting the forests of North America. Taxonomy The black-backed woodpecker was described and illustrated by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 from a specimen collected near the source of the Athabasca River on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 20,796Canada · 15,329France · 10