Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)

Other Names (World)
Spot-breasted Woodpecker, Spot-breasted Flicker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) [XC271914]
by Jonas Nilsson from Chocopot, Paramaribo outskirts, Suriname (call)

Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes) [XC556223]
by Caio Brito from Ramal do Noca, Brazil (canto)

Subspecies
Sometimes placed in a separate genus Chrysoptilus with the other "forest flickers" Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) and Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros). May form a superspecies with Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros). Other named subspecies are lutescens (eastern Dari�n), not reliably distinct from ujhelyii; "notatus" (Colombia), known only from unique type, possibly an aberrant punctipectus; and speciosus (eastern Peru) and rubidipectus (north-eastern Brazil north of Amazon), both considered indistinguishable from guttatus.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

striatigularis (Chapman, 1914) - West-central Colombia.
ujhelyii (Madar�sz, 1912) - Eastern Panama (eastern Dari�n) and northern Colombia.
zuliae (Cory, 1915) - North-western Venezuela.
punctipectus (Cabanis & Heine, 1863) - Eastern Colombia and most of Venezuela (except north-west).
punctigula (Boddaert, 1783) - The Guianas.
guttatus (von Spix, 1824) - Amazonia from eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru east to north-eastern Brazil (Par�), south to north-western Bolivia and northern Mato Grosso.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) - 10 files

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