Golden-green Woodpecker - BirdForum Opus

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Pantanal, Brazil

Piculus chrysochloros

Identification

18–21 cm (7-8¼ in)
Male has a red crown and malar, which is lacking in the female

Distribution

Female
Photo by Gerald Friesen
Darien, Panama, February 2015

Central and South America: found from tropical eastern Panama to northern Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Female
Photo by Xyko Paludo
Araripe, CE, Brazil, July 2017

There are 6 subspecies^[1]:

• P. c. xanthochlorus

• eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and northwestern Venezuela

• P. c. capistratus

• eastern Ecuador, northern Peru and southeastern Colombia east, north of the Amazon, to northeastern Brazil and the Guianas

• P. c. paraensis

• northeast Brazil

• P. c. laemostictus

• eastern Peru and northern Bolivia east, south of the Amazon, to central Amazonian Brazil

• P. c. chrysochloros

• central and south Brazil to Bolivia, west Paraguay and north Argentina

• P. c. polyzonus

• southeast Brazil (Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Minas Gerais)

Habitat

Chaco, open fields with bushes, mountain jungle.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of ants and termites. They forage singly, in pairs and in mixed species flocks.

Breeding

They nest in tree holes, though may also utilise arboreal insect nests.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved March 2017)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Golden-green Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Golden-green_Woodpecker

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