Black-backed woodpecker

The black-backed woodpecker was described and illustrated by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1832 from a specimen collected near the source of the Athabasca River on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada.[3] The black-backed woodpecker is now placed in the genus Picoides which was erected by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799.There is an element of sexual dimorphism in the plumage, with the adult male possessing a yellow cap.Measurements:[6] Their breeding range is boreal forest across Canada, Alaska, the Northwestern United States, as well as northern Wisconsin,[7] the Adirondacks in New York, New England, Minnesota,[8] and Upper Michigan.Black-backed woodpeckers are generally non-migratory but historically have undertaken intermittent irruptions.
Conservation statusLeast ConcernIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataPiciformesPicidaePicoidesBinomial nameSwainsonwoodpeckerdescribedWilliam SwainsonAthabasca RiverRocky MountainsBernard Germain de Lacépèdemonotypicsubspeciesplumagesexual dimorphismAmericanEurasianboreal forestCanadaAlaskaNorthwestern United StatesWisconsinAdirondacksNew YorkNew EnglandMinnesotaUpper MichiganfamiliesCerambycidaeBuprestidaemountain pine beetlegleaningirruptionsincubationaltricialfledgeIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesSwainson, WilliamRichardson, J.Lacépède, Bernard Germain deGill, FrankRasmussen, PamelaInternet Bird CollectionWikidataWikispeciesARKiveAvibaseBirdLifeCenteriNaturalistNatureServeOpen Tree of LifeXeno-canto