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Red-headed Woodpecker

Melanerpes erythrocephalus

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. It is rated as least concern on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List of Endangered species, having been downlisted from near threatened in 2018.The red-bellied woodpecker also has its most prominent red part of its plumage on the head, but it looks quite different in other respects.

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