Puerto Rican Woodpecker
Name in Spanish: Carpintero de Puerto Rico
Scientific name: Melanerpes portoricensis
Taxonomic Family: Picidae
Scientific name: Melanerpes portoricensis
Taxonomic Family: Picidae
Description
Conservation status
Least Concern
Status in Puerto Rico
Endemic
Abundance
Common
Photos by the members of AvesPR
© Mike Morel
Club Deportivo Cabo Rojo April 24,2006 (nesting) White breast is female and red breast is male
© Jose D. Alicea Ortiz
Tomada en Rio Abajo(Cidra)
© Ielena Toledo (Licence: CreativeCommons Attribution 3.0)
Carpintero de Puerto Rico
© Mike Morel
Club Deportivo Cabo Rojo April 29, 2006
© Carmen Maldonado Soto (Licence: CreativeCommons Attribution 3.0)
Media Luna, Vieques
© Javier Hernandez Ramos
Carpintero Joven
© Javier Otero (Licence: CreativeCommons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0)
Carpintero de Puerto Rico visto en Orocovis.
© Javier Hernandez Ramos (Licence: CreativeCommons Attribution 3.0)
Carpintero Joven
© Christine Soto (Licence: CreativeCommons Attribution 3.0)
Carpintero de Puerto Rico
© Javier Hernandez Ramos
Pareja de Carpinteros Jovenes
10 photos out of 28 in the system (selected at random)
Habitat
All types of forests from the mountains to the coasts.
Food
Insectos que viven dentro de la madera, semillas y frutas.
External resources for this species:
Audio recordings from xeno-canto
Audio recordings from Macaulay Library
Videos from Macaulay Library
Pictures from Encyclopedia of Life:
Credit of the picture: Blake Matheson 
