#1453 · 🐦 birds
Gila Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Gilaspecht ·Melanerpes uropygialis
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- 1. © Don Marsille · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tony Doty · CC BY-NC 4.0
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what is it?
The Gila woodpecker ( Melanerpes uropygialis ) is a medium-sized woodpecker of the desert regions of the southwestern United States and western Mexico. , they range through southeastern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico.
base stats
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.
- 18,870 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1854 (172 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gila Woodpecker
- Nederlands
- Gilaspecht
- scientific name
- Melanerpes uropygialis
- class
- Aves
- order
- Piciformes
- family
- Picidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 18,870
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1854 by Spencer Fullerton Baird
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Picidae
#0559 📷 9Great Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Grote bonte specht
Dendrocopos major
LC 👀 2.3k in NL
#0633 📷 10Eurasian Green Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Groene specht
Picus viridis
LC 👀 422 in NL
#0700 📷 9Black Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Zwarte Specht
Dryocopus martius
LC 👀 158 in NL
#0709 📷 10Middle Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Middelste Bonte Specht
Dendrocoptes medius
LC 👀 140 in NL
#0721 📷 8Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Kleine bonte specht
Dryobates minor
LC 👀 103 in NL
#0781 📷 9Eurasian Wryneck
🇳🇱 Draaihals
Jynx torquilla
LC 👀 34 in NL
#1257 📷 10Downy Woodpecker
🇳🇱 Donsspecht
Dryobates pubescens
LC 🌍 216.6k seen
#1261 📷 9Northern Flicker
🇳🇱 Gouden Grondspecht
Colaptes auratus
LC 🌍 172.5k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 18161, Wikidata Q557493, GBIF 2478112, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.