Arizona Woodpecker
Leuconotopicus arizonae
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,603
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Arizona woodpecker”.