White-headed Woodpecker

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When to see the White-headed Woodpecker

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is June, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-headed Woodpecker

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Canada.

About the White-headed Woodpecker

The white-headed woodpecker is a non-migratory woodpecker that resides in pine forests of the mountains of western North America.

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Easily confused with

Smoky-brown WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus fumigatusThe smoky-brown woodpecker is about 18 cm (7.1 in) long and weighs 31 to 50 g (1.1 to 1.8 oz). Arizona WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus arizonaeArizona woodpeckers are nearly identical to Strickland's woodpeckers, growing to be about 7 to 8 inches (18 to 20 cm) in length. Red-cockaded WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus borealisThe red-cockaded woodpecker is small- to mid-sized species, being intermediate in size between North America's two most widespread woodpeckers (the downy and hairy woodpeckers).

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