Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Melanerpes > Melanerpes lewis

Melanerpes lewis (Lewis's Woodpecker; Lewis' Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Asyndesmus lewis; Asyndesmus lewisi; Picus lewis (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by the United States of America as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
View Wikipedia Record: Melanerpes lewis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.95024
EDGE Score: 2.0732
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  105 grams
Birth Weight [3]  5.6 grams
Female Weight [1]  98 grams
Male Weight [7]  113 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  15.3 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Western U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate western forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Nectarivore, Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  60 %
Diet - Nectar [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [4]  50 %
Forages - Understory [4]  50 %
Clutch Size [6]  7
Fledging [1]  31 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  69,000
Incubation [5]  14 days
Mating Display [3]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Migration [5]  Migratory
Snout to Vent Length [1]  11 inches (28 cm)
Speed [8]  16.33 MPH (7.3 m/s)
Wing Span [8]  20 inches (.504 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands Mexico, United States No

Prey / Diet

Zea mays (corn)[9]

Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[9]
Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[9]
Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[9]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Tieleman BI, JB Williams, ME Buschur, and CR Brown. 2003. Phenotypic variation in larks along an aridity gradient: are desert birds more flexible? Ecology 84:1800–1815
♦ 8SCALING OF MUSCLE COMPOSITION, WING MORPHOLOGY, AND INTERMITTENT FLIGHT BEHAVIOR IN WOODPECKERS, BRET W. TOBALSKE, The Auk 113(1):151-177, 1996
♦ 9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0