Species

Melanerpes lewis (Lewis’s woodpecker)

Melanerpes lewis. Photo: (c) Jacob Smith, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

The Lewis’s woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis, one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by the United States of America as part of the Louisiana Purchase.

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