Strickland's Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) [XC597919]
by Alberto Lobato from Parque las maravillas, Ciudad de M\u00e9xico, Mexico (call)
Strickland's Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) [XC722310]
by Alberto Lobato from Vidal D\u00edaz Mu\u00f1oz, Perote, Veracruz, Mexico (begging call, song, hatchling or nestling)
Subspecies
Picoides stricklandi (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) has been split into Strickland's Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) and Arizona Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus arizonae) following AOU (2000).
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
stricklandi (Malherbe, 1845) - Eastern Mexico, from eastern Michoacán east to western-central Veracruz and Puebla.
fraterculus (Ridgway, 1887) - Southern Sinaloa and adjacent Durango south to Michoacán.
arizonae (Hargitt, 1886) - South-western USA, western, northern Mexico.