Hairy woodpecker

The hairy woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) is a medium-sized woodpecker. It is found over a large area of North America.

Subspecies
Seventeen subspecies are recognised:
 L. v. septentrionalis (Nuttall, 1840) – west North America from south Alaska to Ontario to New Mexico
 L. v. picoideus (Osgood, 1901) – Queen Charlotte Island (off British Columbia, Canada)
 L. v. harrisi (Audubon, 1838) – southeast Alaska to north California
 L. v. terraenovae (Batchelder, 1908) – Newfoundland
 L. v. villosus (Linnaeus, 1766) – southeast Canada, north central and northeast USA
 L. v. orius (Oberholser, 1911) – south central British Columbia to southeast California and southwest Utah
 L. v. monticola (Anthony, 1898) – central British Columbia to north New Mexico
 L. v. leucothorectis (Oberholser, 1911) – southeast California to west Texas
 L. v. audubonii (Swainson, 1832) – southeast USA
 L. v. hyloscopus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) – west and south California, north Baja California (Mexico)
 L. v. icastus (Oberholser, 1911) – southeast Arizona, southwest New Mexico to west Mexico
 L. v. intermedius (Nelson, 1900) – east Mexico
 L. v. jardinii	Malherbe, 1845 – south central and east central Mexico
 L. v. sanctorum (Nelson, 1897) – southeast Mexico to northwest Nicaragua
 L. v. extimus (Bangs, 1902) – north central Costa Rica to west Panama
 L. v. piger (Allen, GM, 1905) – north Bahamas
 L. v. maynardi'' (Ridgway, 1887) – south Bahamas

Gallery

Related pages
 Downy woodpecker - A smaller but very similar-looking species.

References

Other websites

Hairy woodpecker - Picoides villosus  - USGS Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter
Hairy woodpecker Species Account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Hairy woodpecker sound at Florida Museum of Natural History

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