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Red-headed Woodpecker
Melanerpes erythrocephalus · Family Picidae
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,638,646
- Countries and territories with records
- 7
About this species
This species has 1,638,646 occurrence records from 7 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (96.5%) and Canada (3.5%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Melanerpes erythrocephalus combines the genus name Melanerpes with the species epithet erythrocephalus. The Warbla app catalog lists 23 species of the genus Melanerpes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Melanerpes carolinus, Melanerpes formicivorus and Melanerpes aurifrons.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 4.1 times the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.