| Lewis's woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Melanerpes |
| Species: | M. lewis
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanerpes lewis (G. R. Gray, 1849)
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Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by the United States of America as part of the Louisiana Purchase and first described this species of bird.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Melanerpes lewis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22680801A92879169. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680801A92879169.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.