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Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Picoides scalaris ORDER: PICIFORMES FAMILY: PICIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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A small black-and-white woodpecker of the southwestern United States and Mexico that forages and nests in cactus.

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Calls

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    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller; L. Irby Davis
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call note a short "peek." Also a harsh rattle.

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