#1327 · 🐦 birds

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Goudvoorhoofdspecht ·Melanerpes aurifrons

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © paulsn · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Greg Lasley · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Lenora Gutierrez-Zamora M. · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gerson Herrera · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Rafael Rodríguez Brito · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Daniel Alexander Carrillo Mtz · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Daniel Alexander Carrillo Mtz · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The golden-fronted woodpecker ( Melanerpes aurifrons ) is a North American woodpecker. Its preferred habitat is mesquite and riparian woodlands. It is distributed from Texas and Oklahoma in the United States through Mexico to Honduras and northern Nicaragua. Cooke listed this species as an abundant resident of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, in 1884.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,605iNaturalist observations
weight 85.4 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
41,605 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 85 g.
Scientifically named by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 (197 years ago).