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Picoides arizonae

Photo by UncleGus_24
Madera Canyon, Arizona, USA, October 2008

[edit] Identification

18cm.

• Brown upperparts
• Dark rump
• White underparts speckled with many brown spots
• Three white wing bars
• Two white stripes across the face
• White bar on the neck
  

Males have a red nape patch

[edit] Distribution

North and Central America: found in South-east Arizona, north and west Mexico.

[edit] Taxonomy

Formerly treated conspecific with Strickland's Woodpecker. Split now accepted by Clements and Howard & Moore.

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• P. a. arizonae:

• South-eastern Arizona to north-western Mexico (northern Sinaloa and adjacent Durango)

• P. a. fraterculus:

• Western Mexico (southern Sinaloa and adjacent Durango to Michoacán)

[edit] Habitat

Pine forests and mixed pine-oak slopes, wooded gardens and canyons at heights of about 4,500 to 7,000 feet.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Breeding

They nest in a cavity excavated from a dead tree trunk. Three to four white eggs are laid on a bed of wood chips.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Wikipedia
3. WhatBird

• List of references

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