Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Leuconotopicus borealis(Vieillot, LJP, 1809)
English (US) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus borealis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Picidae (Woodpeckers) in the order Piciformes.
Range: patchily distributed in pine forest of southeastern USARange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Leuconotopicus borealis
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1809)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus borealis
- Described by
- (Vieillot, LJP, 1809)
- Type locality
- 'Northern United States' rr Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, by designation of Wetmore, injra, p. 498.
- Original description
- Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale, depuis Saint Dominique jusqu'à la baie de Hudson; contenant un grand nombre d'espèces décrites ou figurées pour la première fois 2 p.66 pl.122
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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