Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Subspecies (12)

• Melanerpes aurifrons aurifrons

  lowlands of southwestern Oklahoma and northwestern Texas to south-central Mexico

• Melanerpes aurifrons canescens

  Roatán and Barbareta islands (off northern Honduras)

• Melanerpes aurifrons dubius

  southern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) to northeastern Guatemala and Belize

• Melanerpes aurifrons grateloupensis

  eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas and San Luís Potosí to Puebla and Veracruz)

• Melanerpes aurifrons hughlandi

  Guatemala (upper Río Negro and upper Motagua Valley)

• Melanerpes aurifrons insulanus

  Utila Island (off northern Honduras)

• Melanerpes aurifrons leei

  Cozumel (off Yucatan Peninsula)

• Melanerpes aurifrons pauper

  coastal northern Honduras

• Melanerpes aurifrons polygrammus

  arid southwestern Mexico (southwestern Oaxaca through interior Chiapas)

• Melanerpes aurifrons santacruzi

  southeastern Chiapas to El Salvador, southwestern Honduras, and north-central Nicaragua

• Melanerpes aurifrons turneffensis

  Turneffe Islands (off Belize)

• Melanerpes aurifrons veraecrucis

  Atlantic slope: eastern Mexico (Veracruz) to northeastern Guatemala