#1343 · 🐦 birds

Red-headed Woodpecker

🇳🇱 Roodkopspecht ·Melanerpes erythrocephalus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

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

what is it?

The red-headed woodpecker ( Melanerpes erythrocephalus ) is a small or medium-sized woodpecker from temperate North America. Their breeding habitat is open country across southern Canada and the eastern-central United States. The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 36,544iNaturalist observations
weight 71.6 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.
36,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 72 g.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).