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Photo by fishercl
Location: Ixtapa, Mexico, January, 2010

Melanerpes chrysogenys

[edit] Identification

Black-and-white barred back, rump, with mostly pale grey underparts with yellow-tinged belly. It has a small black eye patch, a faint yellowish wash on ear patch, a red crown, and yellow forehead and nape.
The female is similar, but the crown is pale gray and black, not red.

[edit] Distribution

North America: found in Mexico, in the western, and southwestern coastal strip, and the mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• M. c. chrysogenys:

• Coastal lowlands of north-western Mexico (southern Sinaloa to Nayarit)

• M. c. flavinuchus:

• Western Mexico (Jalisco to se Pueble and e Oaxaca)

[edit] Habitat

Deciduous forests, gallery forests, tropical lowland evergreen forest, second-growth forests, woodlands

[edit] Behaviour

[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.

• List of references

[edit] External Links