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Arizona Woodpecker

Picoides arizonaeOrder: PICIFORMESFamily: Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Arizona Woodpecker Breeding Male Head Illustration

Head

  • Bill Shape: Dagger, All-purpose
  • Eye Color: Hazel, Brown, or Dark brown. May vary with age, Pyle suggests hatch year and early second year birds show brown or gray-brown iris, developing to reddish brown in older birds.
  • Head Pattern: Eyeline, Spotted
  • Crown Color: Dark Brown
  • Forehead Color: Dark Brown
  • Nape Color: Red
  • Throat Color: White with dark brown speckles.
  • Cere color: No Data
Arizona Woodpecker Breeding Male Body Illustration

Body

  • Length Range: 20 cm (7.8 in)
  • Weight: 48 g (1.7 oz)
  • Size: Size 2. Small (5 - 9 in)
  • Color: Red, White, Brown
  • Underparts: White with dark brown speckles.
  • Upperparts: Dark brown with white wing bars.
  • Back Pattern: Spotted or speckled
  • Belly Pattern: Spotted or speckled
  • Breast Pattern: Spotted or speckled
Arizona Woodpecker Breeding Male Flight Illustration

Flight

  • Flight Pattern: Several rapid wing beats alternate with short glides with wings folded.
  • Wingspan Range: 36 cm (14.15 in)
  • Wing Shape: Pointed-Wings
  • Tail Shape: Forked Tail
  • Tail Pattern: Solid
  • Upper Tail: Dark Brown
  • Under Tail: Dark brown with white barring.
  • Leg Color: Gray
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Family Woodpecker (Picidae)_blue
Species Picoides arizonae
Length7.8 Inches
Wingspan14.5 Inches

Arizona Woodpecker

Arizona Woodpecker: Small woodpecker with brown upperparts and heavily spotted and barred white underparts. The forehead and crown are brown, nape patch is red, and throat is white. Face is white with a large, brown cheek patch, creating a white eyebrow and line from the bill to neck.

● Song: "peek", "chick", "chriek-a"

● Foraging & Feeding: Arizona Woodpecker: Eats insects, especially beetle larvae, fruits, and acorns; forages by flying to base of tree, working up trunk and onto smaller branches, and then flying to base of next tree.

● Breeding & nesting: Arizona Woodpecker: Three to four white eggs are laid in a cavity nest made of bark chips and built from 9 to 50 feet above the ground, usually in a dead branch of a living tree, primarily walnuts, oaks, maples, and sycamores. Both parents incubate eggs for 14 days.

● Similar species: Arizona Woodpecker: Ladder-backed Woodpecker has black-outlined, buff ear patches, and white bars and spots on black upperparts; male's crown is completely red. Hairy Woodpecker has white underparts, white back and unmarked white outer tail feathers.

Flight Pattern

Several rapid wing beats alternate with short glides with wings folded.
Arizona Woodpecker Breeding Male Body Illustration
● Range & Habitat: Arizona Woodpecker: Occurs in the mountains of extreme southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Range extends southward into Mexico through Sierra Madre Occidental of Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Zacatecas, and Michoaca. Frequents open oak or pine-oak woodlands or sycamores in canyons.
BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester
PopulationFairly common to uncommon
MigrationNonmigratory
Weight1.7 Ounces