Arizona woodpecker

Arizona woodpecker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Leuconotopicus
Species:
L. arizonae
Binomial name
Leuconotopicus arizonae
(Hargitt, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Picoides arizonae
  • Dryobates arizonae

The Arizona woodpecker (Leuconotopicus arizonae) is a woodpecker native to southern Arizona and New Mexico and the Sierra Madre Occidental of western Mexico. The species' northernmost range in southeastern Arizona, extreme southwestern New Mexico, and northern Sonora is the region of the Madrean Sky Islands, a region of higher Sonoran Desert mountain ranges.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Leuconotopicus arizonae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016. IUCN: e.T22729044A95004073. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22729044A95004073.en. Retrieved 13 January 2018.