Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus) | Details

Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic note
Leuconotopicus villosus (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously placed in the genus Picoides.

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2020	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2009	Least Concern
2008	Least Concern
2004	Least Concern
2000	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1994	Lower Risk/Least Concern
1988	Lower Risk/Least Concern

Species attributes

Migratory status	altitudinal migrant	Forest dependency	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	52 g

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	29,600,000 km²	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	8900000 mature individuals	poor	estimated	2019
Population trend	increasing	-	estimated	-
Rate of change over the past 10 years/3 generations (longer of the two periods)	6%	-	-	-
Generation length	3.1 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population is estimated to number 8,900,000 mature individuals (Partners in Flight 2019).

Trend justification:

This species is increasing (Partners in Flight 2019). The rate of increase amounted to c. 6% over the past ten years (Pardieck et al. 2018).

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident
Bahamas	extant	native	yes
Canada	extant	native	yes
Costa Rica	extant	native	yes
El Salvador	extant	native	yes
Guatemala	extant	native	yes
Honduras	extant	native	yes
Mexico	extant	native	yes
Nicaragua	extant	native	yes
Panama	extant	native	yes
Puerto Rico (to USA)	extant	vagrant	yes
St Pierre and Miquelon (to France)	extant	native	yes
Turks and Caicos Islands (to UK)	extant	vagrant	yes
USA	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Boreal	suitable	resident
Forest	Temperate	major	resident
Altitude	900 - 3450 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Hairy Woodpecker Leuconotopicus villosus. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/hairy-woodpecker-leuconotopicus-villosus on 23/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/12/2024.