Red Headed Woodpecker
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***SUNDAY SPECIAL*** FOREIGN BIRDS ON MY CANVAS ... American Red Headed Woodpecker ... Colored pencil ... A5 ...2016... Bird artwork@688 ... (From the Ref. Photograph of Nancy McIlroy ma'am.) 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. The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN. 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. The red-headed woodpecker's distinct colors are true to the bird's name. The red-headed woodpecker was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work Systema Naturae. The specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek words erythros 'red' and kephalos 'head'. Adults are strikingly tri-colored, with a black back and tail a
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