Arizona Woodpecker
Leuconotopicus arizonae (Hargitt, 1886)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Arizona Woodpecker, Leuconotopicus arizonae, breeds in south-west USA and western and northern Mexico, with its range in North America and Middle America. It is a woodpecker of southern Arizona, New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental, and reaches the Madrean Sky Islands in the far south-east of Arizona, the far south-west of New Mexico and northern Sonora. It is closely matched by Strickland’s Woodpecker, but the male has a red patch on the nape that the female lacks. Older field guides treated it as part of Strickland’s Woodpecker.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- North America, Middle America: sw USA and w, n Mexico
