Golden-green woodpecker
| Golden-green woodpecker | |
|---|---|
 | |
| A female golden-green woodpecker at Poconé, Mato Grosso State, Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Piculus |
| Species: | P. chrysochloros |
| Binomial name | |
| Piculus chrysochloros (Vieillot, 1818) | |
Piculus chrysochloros Swainson, 1820
The golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) is a species of bird in the Picidae family, the woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks. It is found in north-central South America, centered on the Amazon Basin in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Suriname. A disjunct region of the bird's range occurs in northwestern Colombia and Venezuela. A second disjunct group is found 1500 km southeast of the Amazon Basin in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, in an 800 km coastal strip.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Piculus chrysochloros". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Golden-green woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Stamps (for Suriname) plus a mostly accurate RangeMap
- Golden-green woodpecker photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res-(Close-up)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, July 26, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.