Yucatan woodpecker
Distribution and habitat
M. p. pygmaeus (Ridgway, 1885): Cozumel. M. p. rubricomus (Peters, JL, 1948): Yucatán Peninsula south to central Belize. M. p. tysoni (Bond, 1936): Guanaja I. (off northern Honduras). The Yucatán woodpecker is endemic to Central America. Its range includes the Yucatan Peninsula and adjoining offshore islands, Cozumel Island, Belize, northeastern Guatemala and Guanaja Island off the coast of Honduras. It is mostly found in clearings and near the edges of dry woodland and in coastal scrub, but also sometimes inhabits damper woodland and degraded habitats.
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