ABOUT THIS SPECIES
BLACK-CHEEKED WOODPECKER – (Species Account Weblog #117)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Piciformes – Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans and Honeyguides
- FAMILY: Picidae – Woodpeckers,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Melanerpes pucherani
This woodpecker occupies a fairly broad vary, principally over the Caribbean slope of Center America, the place it’s discovered from southern Mexico south to Panama, thence south by means of the Pacific lowlands of northwest South America to western Ecuador. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Black-cheeked Woodpeckers a number of occasions in low to mid-elevation areas from Rancho Naturalista to Sarapiquí to Arenal.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Picture Gallery photos (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by international locations.
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