| White 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. candidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanerpes candidus | |
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The white woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) is a South American species of woodpecker (family Picidae) native to the wooded grasslands of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It is a bright white bird with black wings and a distinctive small bright yellow eye patch. The IUCN has rated it as a "least-concern species".
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Melanerpes candidus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22680798A92878939. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680798A92878939.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc (1796). Herrn von Buffons Naturgeschichte der Vögel (in German). Berlin: Pauli.