Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus)

Other Names (World)
Black-backed Woodpecker, Arctic Woodpecker, Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker, Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1832)

Habitat
Temperate and boreal forest. From sea-level - 3,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (NB), USA (B).

Western and central Alaska east through central Canada (north to area west of Great Bear Lake, central Manitoba and northern Ontario) to southern Labrador and Newfoundland, and south, discontinuously in west, to California and western Nevada (Sierra Nevada), Wyoming, south-central Saskatchewan and north-eastern Minnesota, and in east to northern Michigan, south-eastern Ontario, New York and Nova Scotia.

Population
Estimated population is 1,300,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (60)...)

Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) [XC107870]
by from Bethel Ridge Road, WA, United States (drumming)

Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) [XC210770]
by Martin St-Michel from Isabella Lake area, Superior National Forest, Lake County, Minnesota, United States (call, flight call)

Subspecies
Closely related to Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) and American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) - 10 files

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