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Ladder Backed Woodpecker, Sweetwater Wetlands Park, Tucson Arizona #119512631
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Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Picoides scalaris, is a small black and white woodpecker of the southwestern United States and Mexico that forages and nests in cactus. Photographed in June 2018 in Sweetwater Wetlands Park, a reclaimed wastewater treatment facility managed for wildlife habitat in Tucson, Arizona. A stream riparian oasis in the southwestern desert. Duckweed filled ponds are surrounded by Cottonwood, Willow, Saltbush, Bulrush, Cattail, Mesquite. Desert of Tucson in Pima County in southeastern Arizona, USA. Sonoran desert and Rincon Mountain landscapes.