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title: "Dzięciur różowobrzuchy"
description: "Melanerpes lewis — Ptaki. Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/lewis-s-woodpecker
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dzięciur różowobrzuchy

> Melanerpes lewis — Ptaki. Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis.

- Scientific name: *Melanerpes lewis*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 6017
- Wikidata: [Q607925](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q607925)
- iNaturalist taxon: [18160](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18160)

## Names

- en: Lewis's Woodpecker
- de: Blutgesichtsspecht
- es: Carpintero de Lewis
- fr: Pic de Lewis
- nl: Lewis' specht
- pt: Pica-pau-de-lewis
- pl: Dzięciur różowobrzuchy

## Countries with the most observations

US (5125), CA (653), MX (30)

## Summary

Lewis's woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) is a large North American species of woodpecker which ornithologist Alexander Wilson named after Meriwether Lewis. Lewis was one of the explorers who surveyed the areas bought by the United States of America as part of the Louisiana Purchase and first described this species of bird.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_woodpecker

## Photo

![Dzięciur różowobrzuchy](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lewis-s-woodpecker/medium.jpg)

Photo: Thompson Hyggen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/77694692

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lewis-s-woodpecker?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).