Red-Headed Woodpecker

Red-headed woodpecker
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Near Threatened
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Melanerpes
Species: M. erythrocephalus
Binomial name
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
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Red-headed woodpecker range
Summer range
Year-round range
Wintering range
The red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a small or medium-sized woodpecker from temperate North America. Their breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the eastern-central United States. It is rated as near threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species.
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