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The downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) is a species of woodpecker, the smallest in North America. Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in). Length ranges from 14 to 18 cm (5.5 to 7.1 in). Downy woodpeckers primarily live in forested areas throughout the United States and Canada, with the exception of deserts in the southwest and the ...
The breeding habitat is coniferous forests across western Canada, Alaska and the western and extreme northeastern United States. It has also been seen in Michigan's upper peninsula, [5] and has been recorded breeding in the extreme north of Wisconsin and Minnesota on extremely rare occasions. [6] The female lays 3 to 7 but most often 4 eggs in ...
The northern flicker or common flicker ( Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer (not to ...
The largest surviving species is the great slaty woodpecker, which weighs 430 g (15 oz) on average and up to 563 g (19.9 oz), and measures 45 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in), but the extinct imperial woodpecker, at 55 to 61 cm (22 to 24 in), and ivory-billed woodpecker, around 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) and 516 g (18.2 oz), were probably both larger.
Picus erythrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758. Adult males and females are identical in size and plumage. 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 ...
Hylatomus pileatus Linnaeus, 1758. The pileated woodpecker ( / ˈpaɪliˌeɪtəd wʊdpɛkər, pɪ -/, Dryocopus pileatus) is a large, mostly black woodpecker native to North America. An insectivore, it inhabits deciduous forests in eastern North America, the Great Lakes, the boreal forests of Canada, and parts of the Pacific Coast.
Linnaeus specified the type locality as America septentrionali (North America). [3] The locality is now restricted to South Carolina. [4] The red-bellied woodpecker is one of 24 species now placed in the genus Melanerpes that was introduced by the English ornithologist William John Swainson in 1832.
Acorn woodpecker. The acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus) is a medium-sized woodpecker with a length of around 20 cm (8 in), [2] and an average weight of 85 g (3.0 oz). [citation needed] It is found across Central America, as well as North into the western United States and South into parts of Colombia. [1]