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Picoides arcticus
Black back medium-sized woodpecker. Throat, chest and belly are white, flanks are streaked with black. The head is black, with a yellow crown and a thin white and black mustache. Lacks the white streak behind the eyes showed by American Three-toed Woodpecker.
Coniferous forest of the boreal shield. It is often spotted in burned-over areas. It forages on dead conifers.
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