Woodpeckers (Picidae) - HBW 7

Black-backed Woodpecker (Picoides arcticus)

French: Pic à dos noir German: Schwarzrückenspecht Spanish: Pico Ártico
Other common names: Arctic (Three-toed) Woodpecker, Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker

Taxonomy: Picus (Apternus) arcticus Swainson, 1832, near the sources of the Athabasca River, eastern slope of the Rockies.
Closely related to P. tridactylus and P. dorsalis. Monotypic.

Distribution: W & C Alaska E through C Canada (N to area W of Great Bear Lake, C Manitoba and N Ontario) to S Labrador and Newfoundland, and S, discontinuously in W, to California and W Nevada (Sierra Nevada), Wyoming, SC Saskatchewan and NE Minnesota, and in E to N Michigan, SE Ontario, New York and Nova Scotia.