Object Status:
Extant
Accession Date:
By 1810
Primary Source Reference:
Alexander Wilson (1810). American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States: illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature. Volume 2, Plate 15. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Robert Carr / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175511#page/119/mode/1up (text) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/175511#page/118/mode/1up (plate)
Additional Source Text:
Alexander Wilson (1766-1813) described this species under the name "Red-cockaded Woodpecker / Picus querulus" in American Ornithology vol. 2 (Pl. 15). Wilson (1810: 103) cited "Peale's Museum No. 2027" and wrote: "This new species I first discovered in the pine woods of North Carolina ... A preserved specimen has been deposited in the Museum of this city."
Notes:
Wilson presumed it was a new species, unaware that it had already been described as Picoides borealis by Vieillot ("1807"=1809, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l'Amérique septentrionale). / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180312#page/214/mode/1up
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Current Scientific Name
Picidae | Leuconotopicus borealis
