Melanerpes hypopolius
In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The grey-breasted woodpecker (Melanerpes hypopolius) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to the interior of southwestern Mexico. Areas of domain in Mexico include Guerrero, Morelos, and Puebla. Knowledge of the behavior of this bird was widely unknown before a 1990 study out of the Cooper Ornithological Society which observed six of the birds. The study confirmed the communal roosting habits of the birds, specifically on cacti. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland.
Like Gila woodpecker (male has round red crown patch), but pale red on cheek; short black line over eye; much darker and grayer below and on head. It is also similar to the zebra-backed birds of the same genus. The population is slightly less than 50,000 in its native Mexico, classifying it as a species of least concern for extinction.
Its food source is the fruit of the cactus, similar to that of the grey fox, cactus wren, house finch and lesser long-nosed bat, but cactus fruit is not its only main food source, groups of 3–10 forage... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Puebla | 🇲🇽 México |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-breasted Woodpecker sighting in Puebla on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 145th most-seen of the 164 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Gray-breasted Woodpecker in Puebla on a given day, against under 5% in February to December, the lowest months. That is one of Puebla's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 170 mm in September.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Gray-breasted Woodpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Puebla, in our data
Puebla is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Gray-breasted Woodpecker sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Gray-breasted Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Puebla (7 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
