Birds of the World


Bronze-winged Woodpecker (Colaptes aeruginosus) Range: MA: ne Mexico Parque Ecologico Chipinque, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Split from the common widespread Golden-olive Woodpecker.


Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis atricollis) Male Range: SA: Peru Peru
Photograph by Robert Lewis © All Rights Reserved.


Black-necked Woodpecker (Colaptes atricollis) Female Range: SA: Peru Santa Eulalia Valley, Peru
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus collaris) Male Range: NA, MA: widespread San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Arizona, United States
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas) © All Rights Reserved.


Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus cafer) Female Range: NA, MA: widespread Vancouver, Canada
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Grey-crowned Woodpecker (Colaptes auricularis) Range: MA: w Mexico Mexico
Photograph by Nigel Eggers © All Rights Reserved.


Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris campestroides) Female Range: SA: e, c, se Iguazu National Park, Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

As with most flickers, often seen on the ground with a dirty bill. Compare to Green-barred Woodcreeper in the same genus.


Gilded Flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) Range: NA, MA: sw USA and nw Mexico Arizona, United States
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Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae) Endangered Range: NA: Cuba Cuba
Photograph by David Ascanio - www.abtbirds.com © All Rights Reserved.


Green-barred Woodpecker (Colaptes melanochloros melanochloros) Male Range: SA: e, c, se Ibera Wetlands, Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

In a genus of ground-based Woodpeckers, and sometimes seen on the ground.

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Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides) Range: MA: s Mexico to Nicaragua

Guatemalan Flicker is a split from Northern Flicker based on genetic, phenotypic and apparent vocal divergence.


Chilean Flicker (Colaptes pitius) Range: SA: Chile and sw Argentina Torres del Paine NP, Chile
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Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) Male Range: MA, SA: Panama through n SA and Amazonia Copacabana, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Related to flickers and often seen on the ground.
Male from back.


Crimson-mantled Woodpecker (Colaptes rivolii) Female Range: SA: nw Venezuela to c Bolivia San Isidro Lodge, Ecuador
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Very different than the flickers and terrestrial woodpeckers in the Colaptes genus in that in rarely if ever goes to the ground.


Golden-olive Woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus tucumanus) Range: MA, SA: Mexico to Guyana, nw Peru and nw Argentina Yala, Argentina The southernmost race is not very yellow.
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Golden-olive Woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus gularis) Male Range: MA, SA: Mexico to Guyana, nw Peru and nw Argentina La Romera, Itagui, Antioquia, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

A medium to large vocal woodpecker that, unlike others in its genus, rarely comes to the ground. Amount of yellow varies across large range, and nothern and southern populations may soon be split.
Female from back.


Andean Flicker (Colaptes rupicola rupicola) Range: SA: s Ecuador to nw Argentina La Paz, Bolivia
Photograph by Bradley Hacker © All Rights Reserved.