Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis)

Other Names (World)
Black-necked Woodpecker, Black-necked Flicker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
23 - 25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Malherbe, 1850)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest, high altitude shrubland. From 600 - 3,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Peru.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) [XC262759]
by Dan Lane from Huarochir\u00ed, Lima, Peru (call, song)

Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) [XC443295]
by Mario Tenorio Maldonado from Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Peru (song)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed with Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) and Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros) in a separate genus Chrysoptilus, the so-called "forest flickers".

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

atricollis (Malherbe, 1850) - Western slope of Peruvian Andes from La Libertad and Ancash south to western Arequipa.
peruvianus (Reichenbach, 1854) - Mara��n Valley southern on eastern slope to western Hu�nuco.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) - 10 files

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