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 LC    Rufous-winged Woodpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Piculus simplex

Description (10)
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Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Salvin, 1870)

Range (Guide)
Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama.

Eastern Honduras south to Costa Rica and western Panama (western Chiriquí­, western Bocas del Toro, Atlantic slope of Veraguas).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (9)...)

 
Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) [XC50682]
     by Andrew Spencer from Osa Biodiversity Center, Piro, Osa, Costa Rica (call)

 
Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) [XC729776]
     by Luis E. Vargas from Reserva Biologica Carara, Costa Rica (call)

Subspecies
May form a superspecies with Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker (Piculus callopterus), Lita Woodpecker (Piculus litae) and White-throated Woodpecker (Piculus leucolaemus) and all have often been treated as conspecific.

Proposed subspecies allophyeus, from Honduras, known from only two specimens. Further study is needed.

No subspecies.


References
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Files:
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