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The white-winged woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Afghanistan, China, Iran, [2] Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. The white-winged woodpecker's natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
The white woodpecker (Melanerpes candidus) is a South American species of woodpecker (family Picidae) native to the wooded grasslands of Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. It is a bright white bird with black wings and a distinctive small bright yellow eye patch. The IUCN has rated it as a "least-concern ...
The Syrian woodpecker lacks its relative's black cheek bar and has whiter underparts and paler red underparts, [11] although juvenile great spotted woodpeckers often have an incomplete cheek bar, so can potentially be misidentified as Syrian. The white-winged woodpecker has a far more extensive white wing patch than the great spotted woodpecker ...
The largest surviving species is the great slaty woodpecker, which weighs 430 g (15 oz) on average and up to 563 g (19.9 oz), and measures 45 to 55 cm (18 to 22 in), but the extinct imperial woodpecker, at 55 to 61 cm (22 to 24 in), and ivory-billed woodpecker, around 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) and 516 g (18.2 oz), were probably both larger.
Pileated woodpeckers are mainly black with a red crest, and have a white line down the sides of the throat. Younger specimens tend to have less curved crests, or "mohawks" as some refer to them. They show white on the wings in flight. The flight of these birds is strong and direct, but undulates in the way characteristic of woodpeckers.
It is the largest of the spotted woodpeckers in the western Palearctic, 24–26 cm long with wing-span 38–40 cm.The plumage is similar to the great spotted woodpecker, but with white bars across the wings rather than spots, and a white lower back.
Golden-naped woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysauchen Salvin, 1870: 42 Beautiful woodpecker: Melanerpes pulcher Sclater, PL, 1870: 43 Black-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes pucherani (Malherbe, 1849) 44 White-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes cactorum (d'Orbigny, 1840) 45 Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 46 Jamaican woodpecker
White-fronted woodpecker: Melanerpes cactorum: Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina. Hispaniolan woodpecker: Melanerpes striatus: Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) Jamaican woodpecker: Melanerpes radiolatus: Jamaica. Golden-cheeked woodpecker: Melanerpes chrysogenys: Mexico Grey-breasted woodpecker: Melanerpes hypopolius: southwestern ...