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White-fronted Woodpecker

Melanerpes cactorum
(d´Orbigny, ACVMD, 1839)
Carpintero del Cardón
Pica-pau-de-testa-branca
Family: Picidae
Order: Piciformes
Class: Aves
Phylum / Division: Chordata
Kingdom: Animalia
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Conservation status according to BirdLife International: Least Concern

Synonyms: Picus cactorum.


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🌿 EcoRegistros Revista - Related Articles


📖 Issue Nº 1 • Article Nº 12
✍ Damián Carnevale
05/31/2011 17:50



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Last published photographs

Foto
Photography ID: 644921
  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
07/12/2025
Gaston Lisandro Gabinetti
Foto
Photography ID: 644697
  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
07/12/2025
Peter Vidana
Foto
Photography ID: 492000
♂  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
03/02/2022
Mercedes Vivero
Foto
Photography ID: 417682
  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
10/31/2020
Héctor Schreiber
Foto
Photography ID: 407978
♀  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
05/14/2020
Héctor Bernardo Fernández
Foto
Photography ID: 37494
♀  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
01/04/2014
Héctor Schreiber
Foto
Photography ID: 23759
♂ ♀  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
06/30/2013
Héctor Bernardo Fernández
Foto
Photography ID: 14924
  Adult
Resistencia
Chaco
Argentina
07/14/2012
Héctor Bernardo Fernández



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 Detail of places sorted by number of records







Page 1
Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
232641812/07/2025ArgentinaChacoBarrio Villa Avalos, ResistenciaGaston Lisandro Gabinetti
232575112/07/2025ArgentinaChacoBarrio Villa Avalos, ResistenciaPeter Vidana
157620902/03/2022ArgentinaChacoVilla Fabiana, ResistenciaMercedes Vivero
130754931/10/2020ArgentinaChacoEstablecimiento San Luisito, ResistenciaHéctor Schreiber
128043614/05/2020ArgentinaChacoResistenciaHéctor Bernardo Fernández
68908212/01/2018ArgentinaChacoVilla Fabiana, ResistenciaWalter Liriel Gómez Umpierrez
10789804/01/2014ArgentinaChacoVilla Fabiana, ResistenciaHéctor Schreiber
6381330/06/2013ArgentinaChacoVilla Fabiana, ResistenciaHéctor Bernardo Fernández
3774014/07/2012ArgentinaChacoMonte Alto, ResistenciaHéctor Bernardo Fernández
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Bibliography related


Artículo Chimento, N., J. La Grotteria, F. L. Angolin y R. F. Lucero. 2011. Nuevos registros del Carpintero del Cardón (Melanerpes cactorum) en la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Historia Natural, Tercera Serie, Volumen 1.



Citation recommended:

EcoRegistros. 2026. White-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes cactorum) - Species sheet. Acceded from https://www.ecoregistros.org on 17/03/2026.