Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus): COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes Erythrocephalus in Canada
Table of contents
- Assessment Summary
- Executive Summary
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements and Authorities Contacted
- Authorities Consulted
- Information Sources
- Biographical Summary of Report Writer
Threatened 2007
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2007. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 27 pp.
Previous report
Page, Annett M. 1996. COSEWIC status report on the Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-50 pp.
Production note
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Carl Savignacfor writing the update status report on the Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by Dr. Marty L. Leonard, Co-chair, COSEWIC Birds Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: 819-953-3215
Fax: 819-994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC Website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le Pic à tête rouge (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) au Canada - Mise à jour.
Cover illustration
Red-headed Woodpecker -- Jean-Sébastien Guénette.
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue N°. CW69-14/16-2007E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-45986-6
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