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) [XC2995]
by Paul Smith from Santa Rosa; at km 5 along road to Riberalta, Beni, Bolivia (call)

White Woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) [XC23455]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Hyacinth Valley camp, Piaui, Brazil (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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