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Yucatán Woodpecker

Ranges over the entire
Yucatán Peninsula...3
subspecies icentified.

Melanerpes pygmaeus

(L 6.7")

Crooked Tree Wildlife
Sanctuary

07Mar2019

© Robert B.
Waide

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Macaulay
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Melanerpes in Greek means
black creeper; pygmaeus in
Latin means pygmy.

Poison could have been the
major factor in the crash of
the Imperial Woodpecker.
(Tim Gallagher)

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