Arizona Woodpecker

Picoides arizonaeOrder: PICIFORMES Family: Woodpeckers (Picidae)

Codes: Common Name: ARWO Scientific Name: PICARI ITIS Taxonomic No.: 685724

Head

Topo Map: Tree-clinging-like Head

Bill Shape: Dagger, All-purpose
Eye Color: Hazel, Brown, or Dark brown. May vary with age, Pyle suggests hatch year and early second year birds show brown or gray-brown iris, developing to reddish brown in older birds.
Head Pattern: Eyeline, Spotted
Crown Color: Dark Brown
Forehead Color: Dark Brown
Nape Color: Red
Throat Color: White with dark brown speckles.
Cere color: No Data

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Body

Topo Map: Tree-clinging-like Body

Length Range: 20 cm (7.8 in)
Weight: 48 g (1.7 oz)
Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
Color: Red, White, Brown
Underparts: White with dark brown speckles.
Upperparts: Dark brown with white wing bars.
Back Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Belly Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Breast Pattern: Spotted or speckled

Flight

Topo Map: Tree-clinging-like Flight

Flight Pattern: Several rapid wing beats alternate with short glides with wings folded.
Wingspan Range: 36 cm (14.15 in)
Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
Tail Shape: Forked Tail
Tail Pattern: Solid
Upper Tail: Dark Brown
Under Tail: Dark brown with white barring.
Leg Color: Gray

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Arizona Woodpecker

Arizona Woodpecker: Small woodpecker with brown upperparts and heavily spotted and barred white underparts. The forehead and crown are brown, nape patch is red, and throat is white. Face is white with a large, brown cheek patch, creating a white eyebrow and line from the bill to neck.

● Song: "peek", "chick", "chriek-a"

● Foraging & Feeding: Arizona Woodpecker: Eats insects, especially beetle larvae, fruits, and acorns; forages by flying to base of tree, working up trunk and onto smaller branches, and then flying to base of next tree.

● Breeding & nesting: Arizona Woodpecker: Three to four white eggs are laid in a cavity nest made of bark chips and built from 9 to 50 feet above the ground, usually in a dead branch of a living tree, primarily walnuts, oaks, maples, and sycamores. Both parents incubate eggs for 14 days.

● Similar species: Arizona Woodpecker: Ladder-backed Woodpecker has black-outlined, buff ear patches, and white bars and spots on black upperparts; male's crown is completely red. Hairy Woodpecker has white underparts, white back and unmarked white outer tail feathers.

Flight Pattern

Several rapid wing beats alternate with short glides with wings folded.

● Range & Habitat: Arizona Woodpecker: Occurs in the mountains of extreme southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Range extends southward into Mexico through Sierra Madre Occidental of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Zacatecas, and Michoaca. Frequents open oak or pine-oak woodlands or sycamores in canyons.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationFairly common to uncommon

^MigrationNonmigratory

^Weight1.7 Ounces

Tree-clinging-like Head

Tree-clinging-like Body

Tree-clinging-like Flight

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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