White Woodpecker
Melanerpes candidus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,943
- Most observed in
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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".
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “White woodpecker”.