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==Description== |
==Description== |
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The adult is {{cvt|18.5|cm}} long and weighs {{cvt|63|g}}. It has black upperparts with white barring on the back, white spotting on the wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-olive with a red central belly. There is a black patch through the eyes and on the cheeks, a yellow forehead, and a red nape. The crown is red in the male and black in the female. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less red on the belly.<ref name=stiles>{{ cite book | last1=Stiles | first1=F. Gary | last2=Skutch | first2=Alexander F. | author2-link=Alexander Skutch | year=1989 | title=A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica | location=Ithaca, NY | publisher=Cornell University | isbn=978-0-8014-9600-4 | pages= |
The adult is {{cvt|18.5|cm}} long and weighs {{cvt|63|g}}. It has black upperparts with white barring on the back, white spotting on the wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-olive with a red central belly. There is a black patch through the eyes and on the cheeks, a yellow forehead, and a red nape. The crown is red in the male and black in the female. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less red on the belly.<ref name=stiles>{{ cite book | last1=Stiles | first1=F. Gary | last2=Skutch | first2=Alexander F. | author2-link=Alexander Skutch | year=1989 | title=A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica | location=Ithaca, NY | publisher=Cornell University | isbn=978-0-8014-9600-4 | pages=252–253 }}</ref> |
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==Further reading== |
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*{{ cite book | last=Skutch | first=Alexander F. | author-link=Alexander Skutch | date=1969 | chapter=Blue-cheeked woodpecker | title=Life Histories of Central American Birds III: Families Cotingidae, Pipridae, Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, and Picidae | series=Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 35 | location=Berkeley, California | publisher=Cooper Ornithological Society | chapter-url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/pca/pca_035.pdf#page=518 | pages= |
*{{ cite book | last=Skutch | first=Alexander F. | author-link=Alexander Skutch | date=1969 | chapter=Blue-cheeked woodpecker | title=Life Histories of Central American Birds III: Families Cotingidae, Pipridae, Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, and Picidae | series=Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 35 | location=Berkeley, California | publisher=Cooper Ornithological Society | chapter-url=https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/pca/pca_035.pdf#page=518 | pages=518–521 | ref=none }} |
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Revision as of 07:03, 14 April 2021
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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. pucherani
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| Melanerpes pucherani (Malherbe, 1849)
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The black-cheeked woodpecker (Melanerpes pucherani) is a resident breeding bird from southeastern Mexico south to western Ecuador.
This woodpecker occurs in the higher levels of wet forests, semi-open woodland and old second growth. It nests in an unlined hole 6–30 m (20–98 ft) high in a dead tree. The clutch is two to four glossy white eggs, incubated by both sexes.
The binomial commemorates the French zoologist Jacques Pucheran.[2]
The black-cheeked woodpecker feeds on insects, but will take substantial quantities of fruit and nectar.[3]
This common and conspicuous species gives a rattling krrrrrl call and both sexes drum on territory.
Description
The adult is 18.5 cm (7.3 in) long and weighs 63 g (2.2 oz). It has black upperparts with white barring on the back, white spotting on the wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-olive with a red central belly. There is a black patch through the eyes and on the cheeks, a yellow forehead, and a red nape. The crown is red in the male and black in the female. Young birds are duller, have less white above and less red on the belly.[3]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Melanerpes pucherani". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 323. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ a b Stiles, F. Gary; Skutch, Alexander F. (1989). A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 252–253. ISBN 978-0-8014-9600-4.
Further reading
- Skutch, Alexander F. (1969). "Blue-cheeked woodpecker" (PDF). Life Histories of Central American Birds III: Families Cotingidae, Pipridae, Formicariidae, Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptidae, and Picidae. Pacific Coast Avifauna, Number 35. Berkeley, California: Cooper Ornithological Society. pp. 518–521.