Black-backed Woodpecker
Picoides arcticus(Swainson, WJ, 1832)
English (US) Black-backed Woodpecker
The Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) 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: boreal forest of northern North AmericaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Picoides arcticus
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus (Apternus) arcticus
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
- Type locality
- Near the sources of the Athabasca River, lat. 57° N., eastern slope of the Rockies.
- Original description
- Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part second, the birds pt.2 p.313
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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