Hairy woodpecker
| Hairy woodpecker | |
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| Male, eastern subspecies septentrionalis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Leuconotopicus |
| Species: | L. villosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Leuconotopicus villosus (Linnaeus, 1766)
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The hairy woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) is a medium-sized woodpecker. It is found over a large area of North America.[2]
Subspecies[change | change source]
Seventeen subspecies are recognised:
- L. v. septentrionalis (Nuttall, 1840) – west North America from south Alaska to Ontario to New Mexico
- L. v. picoideus (Osgood, 1901) – Queen Charlotte Island (off British Columbia, Canada)
- L. v. harrisi (Audubon, 1838) – southeast Alaska to north California
- L. v. terraenovae (Batchelder, 1908) – Newfoundland
- L. v. villosus (Linnaeus, 1766) – southeast Canada, north central and northeast USA
- L. v. orius (Oberholser, 1911) – south central British Columbia to southeast California and southwest Utah
- L. v. monticola (Anthony, 1898) – central British Columbia to north New Mexico
- L. v. leucothorectis (Oberholser, 1911) – southeast California to west Texas
- L. v. audubonii (Swainson, 1832) – southeast USA
- L. v. hyloscopus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) – west and south California, north Baja California (Mexico)
- L. v. icastus (Oberholser, 1911) – southeast Arizona, southwest New Mexico to west Mexico
- L. v. intermedius (Nelson, 1900) – east Mexico
- L. v. jardinii Malherbe, 1845 – south central and east central Mexico
- L. v. sanctorum (Nelson, 1897) – southeast Mexico to northwest Nicaragua
- L. v. extimus (Bangs, 1902) – north central Costa Rica to west Panama
- L. v. piger (Allen, GM, 1905) – north Bahamas
- L. v. maynardi (Ridgway, 1887) – south Bahamas
Gallery[change | change source]
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Adult female, Ottawa, Ontario -
Stowe, Vermont -
Male, Palmer, Alaska -
At a peanut feeder -
Feeding on suet
Related pages[change | change source]
- Downy woodpecker - A smaller but very similar-looking species.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ BirdLife International (2020). "Leuconotopicus villosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22681166A141046523. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22681166A141046523.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ↑ "Hairy Woodpecker Life History, All About Birds". www.allaboutbirds.org. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
Other websites[change | change source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leuconotopicus villosus.
Wikispecies has information on: Picoides villosus.
- Hairy woodpecker - Picoides villosus - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
- Hairy woodpecker Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Hairy woodpecker sound at Florida Museum of Natural History
