White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Otto, 1796)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay (B).

Lower Amazon (west to R Madeira), and from extreme south-eastern Peru (Pampas del Heath), southern Mato Grosso and north-eastern Brazil (northern Maranh�o) south to eastern Bolivia, northern Argentina (south to C�rdoba, northern Buenos Aires) and western and southern Uruguay.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (47)...)

White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) [XC558689]
by id from Nueva Hesperides International Airport (near Salto), Departamento de Salto, Uruguay (song)

White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) [XC742773]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Victoria, Entre R\u00edos, Argentina (call)

Subspecies
Distinctive. Sometimes placed in monotypic genus Leuconerpes, but shows many morphological similarities to typical Melanerpes.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) - 10 files

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