Habitats: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (8), Mediterranean woodland (3), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (9), desert/xeric shrubland (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (2)
Found in 24 samples
Belize: Belize Groves Management Company Limited (orange orchard #4)
Bolivia: Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Costa Rica: Monteverde
Guatemala: Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)
Honduras: Centro de Investigacíon y Jardín Botánico Lancetilla, Isla de Utila
Mexico: Palenque National Park (control sites), Palenque National Park (unconnected sites), La Paz, Cozumel Island (birds, 2004 - 2007)
United States: Baldwin County, Camarillo Oak Grove County Park, Sandrock Cliff (spring), Sandrock Cliff (fall), El Verde Field Station (30 mm mesh), William Trelease Woods (gap, spring), Hopland Research and Extension Center, Dawes County (in-channel), St. Catherine's Island, Wedge Plantation, China Creek Park, The Wilds
Venezuela: Este del Lago de Valencia (rainy season), Araya Peninsula (tropical thorn scrub)
See also Melanerpes aurifrons, Melanerpes carolinus, Melanerpes cruentatus, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Melanerpes formicivorus, Melanerpes hoffmanii, Melanerpes portoricensis, Melanerpes pygmaeus, Melanerpes rubricapillus, Melanerpes santacruzi, Melanerpes uropygialis