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White-headed woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: | Leuconotopicus Malherbe, 1845 |
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Leuconotopicus is a genusofwoodpeckers in the family Picidae native to North and South America.
The genus was erected by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 with Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) as the type species.[1] The name Leuconotopicus combines the Ancient Greek leukos meaning "white", nōton meaning "back" and pikos meaning "woodpecker".[2] The genus is sister to the genus Veniliornis and is one of eight genera placed in the tribe Melanerpini within the woodpecker subfamily Picinae.[3] The species now placed in this genus were previously assigned to Picoides.[4][5]
The genus contains the following six species:[5]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Red-cockaded woodpecker | Leuconotopicus borealis (Vieillot, 1809) |
southeastern United States from Florida to Virginia, as far west as eastern Texas and Oklahoma; formerly Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, and Tennessee![]() |
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NT
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Smoky-brown woodpecker | Leuconotopicus fumigatus (D'Orbigny, 1840) Five subspecies
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Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela![]() |
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LC
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Arizona woodpecker | Leuconotopicus arizonae (Hargitt, 1886) |
southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico![]() |
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LC
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Strickland's woodpecker
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Leuconotopicus stricklandi (Malherbe, 1845) |
Mexico![]() |
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LC
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Hairy woodpecker | Leuconotopicus villosus (Linnaeus, 1766) Seventeen subspecies
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Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States; vagrant to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos Islands![]() |
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LC
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White-headed woodpecker | Leuconotopicus albolarvatus (Cassin, 1850) Two subspecies
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British Columbia through southern California![]() |
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LC
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