Birds of Mexico

    PICIFORMES: Picidae (Woodpeckers)  
Genus: Campephilus (2 species, 12 worldwide)


Pale-billed Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis regius)
Temozon, Yucatan, Mexico  
   
Photograph by Panegyrics of Granovetter     Copyright and usage info


Imperial Woodpecker
Imperial Woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis) Critically Endangered ENDEMIC
Wiesbaden Museum,  
   
Photograph by Fritz Geller-Grimm     Copyright and usage info

A giant woodpecker last sighted almost fifty years ago, and almost certainly extinct.


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