White Woodpecker
Melanerpes candidus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The white woodpecker is a South American species of woodpecker native to the wooded grasslands of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It is a bright white bird with black wings and a distinctive small bright yellow eye patch. The IUCN has rated it as a "least-concern species".
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Melanerpes