White-headed Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Cassin, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, temperate forest. From sea-level - 3,200 m.

Range (Guide)

Canada, USA (B).

Population
Estimated population is 70,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (56)...)

White-headed Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) [XC734347]
by Paul Marvin from Mammoth Lakes, Mono County, California, United States (begging call, hatchling or nestling)

White-headed Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) [XC603293]
by Ron Overholtz from Camp Polk Meadow Preserve, Sisters, Deschutes County, Oregon, United States (call)

Subspecies
Closest to Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis), Strickland's Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) and Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus). Subspecies rather poorly differentiated, with variation possibly clinal.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

albolarvatus (Cassin, 1850) - South-central British Columbia south, discontinuously in mountains, to Washington, western Idaho, Oregon, California (southern in Coast Ranges to north-western Colusa, and along Sierra Nevada in east), and extreme western Nevada.
gravirostris (Grinnell, 1902) - South-western California (mountains around Los Angeles and San Diego).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for White-headed Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus albolarvatus) - 10 files

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