Red-headed Woodpecker
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The red-headed woodpecker is a mid-sized woodpecker found in temperate North America. Its breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the east-central United States. It is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species, having been down-listed from near threatened in 2018.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Melanerpes