Arizona Woodpecker
Common
Name:
Arizona
Woodpecker (ARWO)
(split
from Strickland's Woodpecker – Picoides
stricklandi)
Scientific
Name:
Picoides
arizonae
Global/Continental
Conservation Status: NOT on the IUCN 2004 Red
List
National-level
Conservation Status:
Nothing other than coverage under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Key
Reference(s):
BNA No. 474 (Johnson et al. 1999) (written before the split between
P. arizonae and P.
stricklandi) assume research needs still appropriate
Distribution:
Resident [arizonae group]
from s
Arizona
and sw
New Mexico
(Peloncillo and Animas mountains) south in the
Sierra Madre Occidental
to Jalisco and n and e-c Michoacán. (AOU
1998 – also written before the split).
Habitat
Associations:
Pine-Oak
Forest, primarily in oak [arizonae
group] (1250 – 4200 m; upper Subtropical and Temperate zones) (AOU
1998).
Source(s)
of Research/monitoring Needs: New Mexico Bird
Conservation Plan; BNA No. 474 (Johnson et al. 1999); PIF Monitoring Needs
document (Partners in Flight Science Committee 2004)
PIF
Continental Plan Monitoring Needs Category: Mo1 (Essentially no data on
population trend); Mo4 (2/3 or more of the Western Hemisphere breeding
range is south of
U.S.
(PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
RESEARCH/MONITORING NEEDS (source(s) of needs)
Monitoring
- Priority
monitoring action – Conduct Mexican Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) (PIF
Monitoring Needs doc)
- Second
priority monitoring action – Conduct border (U.S.-Mexico) bird
surveys (PIF Monitoring Needs doc)
- High
priority candidate for rapid status assessment (PIF Monitoring Needs
doc)
- Develop
a population estimate for Arizona Woodpeckers breeding in
New Mexico
(
New Mexico
)
Habitat
Needs/Ecology/Life History
- More
standardized studies of foraging ecology (foraging substrate, diet,
nutritional needs) (BNA)
Demographics
- Information
on age at breeding & longevity (BNA)
[Link
to References]
[Link
to PIF Bird Conservation Plans]
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