ABOUT THIS SPECIES
PALE-BILLED WOODPECKER – (Species Account Weblog #120)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Piciformes – Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans and Honeyguides
- FAMILY: Picidae – Woodpeckers,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Campephilus guatemalensis
The Pale-billed Woodpecker is without doubt one of the largest and most spectacular woodpeckers in Central America. Present in lowland forests from northern Mexico south to western Panama, this species is pretty frequent all through most of its vary, however shouldn’t be current in closely deforested areas, and will now be extirpated from the northwestern restrict of its reported distribution in Sonora, Mexico. (from Birds of the World)
GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Pale-billed Woodpecker whereas within the Punta Leona space and near5 Sarapiquí.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Picture Gallery photographs (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by nations.
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