This Lineated Woidpecker (Dryocopus lineatus)—a female—was in the village of Singayta, a short distance inland from San Blas on the Pacific side of Mexico in February.
A large woodpecker, this species occurs over much of Central and South America as far south as northern Argentina. Those in Western Mexico can be distinguished by the white stripe not extending, or only as a thin white line, to the face. Now considered by those who use subspecies as D. l. scapularis it was like other birds we saw and photographed on the Pacific side of Mexico first described as a distinct species by Nicholas Vigors from a specimen collected by the expedition led by Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) on board HMS Blossom when at San Blas in December 1827.
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