Gila Woodpecker
An iconic and noisy bird of the Sonoran Desert, this Gila woodpecker was busy drilling into the dead section of a saguaro cactus early in the morning in Pima County, Arizona.
- Copyright
- ©2015
- Image Size
- 6000x4000 / 9.5MB
- Keywords
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Ajo, Ajo Range, Angiosperms, Animalia, Arizona, Aves, C. gigantea, Cactaceae, Cactoideae, Carnegiea, Carnegiea gigantea, Caryophyllales, Cereus giganteus, Chordata, Eudicots, Gila, Gila woodpecker, M. uropygialis, Melanerpes, Melanerpes uropygialis, OPCNM, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Pachycereeae, Picidae, Piciformes, Pima County, Plantae, Saguaro, Sonoran Desert, Twin Peaks, Twin Peaks Campground, animal, arborescent, arid, ave, avian, beak, beautiful, beauty, bird, birdwatching, black, botany, cacti, cactus, desert, dicot, fauna, feather, flora, giant cactus, gray, green, grey, heat, hurt, monotypic, native, natural, nature, ornithology, pain, painful, pecker, perennial, pitahaya, plant, poke, prickle, prickly, red, sahuaro, sharp, southwest, spike, spiky, spring, succulent, thorn, thorny, tree, tree-like, vertebrate, west, western, white, wild, wildlife, wing, woodpecker
- Contained in galleries
- Woodpeckers
