Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
18 - 24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1818)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, swamp forest. From 100 - 650 m.

Range (Guide)

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, 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 (67)...)

Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) [XC202303]
by Robert S. Ridgely from Sobral, Sobral, State of Cear\u00e1, Brazil (song)

Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) [XC37943]
by Andrew Spencer from Cristalino Jungle Lodge, MT, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-browed Woodpecker (Piculus aurulentus). Specific name sometimes misspelt as chrysochlorus. Racial differentiation partly obscured by considerable individual variation; birds in southern Colombia (Putumayo) and north-eastern Ecuador lacking red malar stripe may possibly represent a new, as yet unnamed subspecies. Further study is needed, possibly also taxonomic revision.

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

aurosus (Nelson, 1912) - Eastern Panama.
xanthochlorus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1875) - Northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela.
capistratus (Malherbe, 1862) - South-eastern Colombia and north-western Brazil east to Surinam.
guianensis Todd, 1937 - French Guiana.
paraensis (Snethlage, E, 1907) - North-eastern Brazil.
laemostictus Todd, 1937 - North-western Brazil.
hypochryseus Todd, 1937 - Western Brazil south to northern Bolivia.
chrysochloros (Vieillot, 1818) - Central and southern Brazil south to eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay and northern Argentina (Formosa south to Santa Fe).
polyzonus (Valenciennes, 1826) - South-eastern Brazil (Esp��rito Santo, Rio de Janeiro).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) - 10 files

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