| Cuban Green Woodpecker | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Subfamily: | Picinae |
| Tribe: | Dendropicini |
| Genus: | Xiphidiopicus Bonaparte, 1854 |
| Species: | X. percussus |
| Binomial name | |
| Xiphidiopicus percussus (Temminck, 1826) |
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The Cuban Green Woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Xiphidiopicus. It is endemic to Cuba.
A distinctive, relatively small woodpecker of the general size and shape of a sapsucker, occasionally appearing crested, with bright olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts. Nape and upper breast are bright red with some black bases to feathers usually visible, with black chin and throat; red crown in males, black crown striped white in females. White face and supercilium, punctuated by black border to cheek. Yellow breast is streaked with black or greenish-black, yellow on flanks barred with black. Crissum is yellow with black barring. Females is significantly smaller than the male, generally shorter-billed. Juveniles are generally duller in plumage, showing more barring and streaking below. It measures 20–25 cm (7.9–9.8 in) in length and weighs 48–97 g (1.7–3.4 oz).[1]
Its natural habitats are dry forests, lowland moist forests, and heavily degraded former forest.