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Species of bird
| Strickland's woodpecker | |
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| Conservation status | |
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Leuconotopicus |
| Species: | L. stricklandi |
| Binomial name | |
| Leuconotopicus stricklandi (Malherbe, 1845) | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Picoides stricklandi | |
Strickland's woodpecker (Leuconotopicus stricklandi) is a medium-sized species of woodpecker endemic to Mexico. The Arizona woodpecker (L. arizonae) was formerly considered the northern subspecies of this bird until the 42nd supplement of the American Ornithologists Union checklist, which officially split them into two separate species.
Taxonomy
Strickland's woodpecker was first described by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1845 and given its current name which commemorates the British scientist Hugh Edwin Strickland. Some taxonomic authorities, including the American Ornithological Society, continue to place this species in the genus Picoides.
Habitat
A quiet and shy bird, Strickland's woodpeckers are fairly common in their limited range, usually found in pine forests and mixed pine-oak slopes at heights of about 4,500 to 7,000 feet. The Strickland's woodpecker's range generally follows a thin east–west band in central Mexico from Michoacán to Veracruz.
Description
Strickland's woodpeckers grow to be about 7 to 8 inches in length, and are mainly brown and white in color. They are brown on top with a dark rump and have white underparts speckled with many brown spots. Strickland's woodpeckers usually have three white bars on their wings, and have two white stripes across their face which join with another white bar on their neck. Male Strickland's woodpeckers also have a red patch on the nape of their head which is lacking on females.
The nest of this species is in a cavity excavated from a dead tree trunk. The female lays three to four white eggs on a bed of wood chips, but other details of nesting periods and duration are mostly unknown.
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Leuconotopicus stricklandi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22681161A92895291. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681161A92895291.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
- Malherbe, Alfred (1845). "Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Picus, Linné". Revue Zoologique par la Société Cuvierienne (in French and Latin). 8: 374–375.
External links
- Strickland's woodpecker at AviBase. Also, Colusa High School in Colusa California, were the ones to have discovered this species in 1942.
- Strickland's woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Photo www.nashvillezoo.org
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Leuconotopicus stricklandi | |
| Dryobates stricklandi | |
| Picus stricklandi | |