Arizona woodpecker
Picoides arizonae
Identification Tips:
- Length: 7.25 inches
- Pointed bill
- Brown crown, cheek, malar streak and upperparts
- White border to cheek
- White underparts with dark spotting
- Male has red nape patch
- United States range restricted to southeastern Arizona and southwestern
New Mexico
Similar species:
The Strickland's Woodpecker has a uniform brown back that other
woodpeckers, flickers and sapsuckers lack.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.