Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Craniata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Melanerpes
Species: lewis
Lewis's Woodpecker - Melanerpes lewis
340124
Species Extent (New Mexico)
General Description
Lewis's Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large (26-28 cm) woodpecker. They are distributed across the western U.S. and southern British Columbia. They inhabit open forest and woodland with elements of brushy understory and woody debris. Unlike many woodpeckers, they rarely bore into trees searching for insects, but instead pick them from the surface of the bark or catch them in the air.
Status
Global Rank: G4
State Rank: S3B,S3N
State Status:
Federal Status:
USFS Status: R3 SCC
BLM Status: BLM WATCH
SWAP Status: SGCN
NMRP Strategy Status:
Observations in Natural Heritage New Mexico Database
Number of Subpopulations: 32
Number of Mapped Locations: 35
Number of Observations: 91
Observation date range: 01-01-1925
to 06-17-2023
External Links
Year
2013
Citation Park, B. 2013. Gila National Forest GIS wildlife data. Gila National Forest, U.S. Forest Service.
Reference Code
D13GIL01NMUS
Year
1978
Citation Bureau of Land Management. 1978. Miscellaneous raptor and songbird surveys on BLM lands in Northern New Mexico.
Reference Code
F78BLM01NMUS
Year
2001
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 2001. Breeding Bird Surveys in the Albuquerque Field Office Area of the Bureau of Land Management. 57 p.
Reference Code
U01HAW02NMUS
Year
2002
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 2002. Field inventory of breeding birds in the Albuquerque Resource Area. 52 p.
Reference Code
U02HAW03NMUS
Year
2005
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 2005. Field inventory of breeding birds at seven riparian sites in Cibola and Sandoval Counties, New Mexico. 31 p.
Reference Code
U05HAW05NMUS
Year
2007
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 2007. Breeding bird surveys at seven riparian sites in the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque Resource Area.
Reference Code
U07HAW01NMUS
Year
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 2010. Breeding Bird Surveys at seven riparian sites in the Bureau of Land Management, Albuquerque Resource Area.
Reference Code
U10HAI02NMUS
Year
2020
Citation Hudson, H. 2020. RE: Heritage Data Website Updated. Email correspondence from USFS.
Reference Code
U20HUD01NMUS
Year
1984
Citation Bock, C.E. et al. 1984. Bird, lagomorph, and rodent populations of semiarid rangelands in the Rio Puerco Basin of New Mexico. USFS Cooperative Agreement No. 28-C2-218. Appleton, Whittell Research Ranch, National Audubon Society and University of Colorado.
Reference Code
U84BOC01NMUS
Year
1998
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 1998. Annual report of the breeding bird surveys and Southwestern Willow Flycatcher surveys, Rio Puerco Resource Area. 81 p.
Reference Code
U98HAW01NMUS
Year
1999
Citation Hawks Aloft, Inc. 1999. Annual report of Breeding Bird Surveys in the Rio Puerco Resource Area.
Reference Code
U99HAW01NMUS
