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Grey-breasted Woodpecker
Melanerpes hypopolius (Wagler, 1829)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Grey-breasted Woodpecker, Melanerpes hypopolius, is a woodpecker of the Picidae family found in the interior of south-western Mexico, including Guerrero, Morelos and Puebla. It is confined to that part of Middle America and lives in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland. A notable feature is its communal roosting on cacti. It was described by Wagler in 1829.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- Middle America: sw Mexico
