Bronze-winged Woodpecker (Colaptes aeruginosus)
About the Bronze-winged Woodpecker
The golden-olive woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus) is a species of bird in the subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found from Mexico south and east through Panama, in every mainland South American country except Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The golden-olive woodpecker was formally described in 1820 as Picus rubiginosis by the English zoologist William Swainson. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "rusty". Swainson specified the type locality as the "Spanish Main". In 1918 the Austrian ornithologist Carl Eduard Hellmayr restricted the location to Caracas, Venezuela. The golden-olive woodpecker is now one of 14 species placed in the genus Colaptes that was introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Nineteen subspecies are recognised:
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 16 recordings for this species: 11 CC BY-NC-SA · 5 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Mexico in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Andean FlickerColaptes rupicolarecording
- Crimson-mantled WoodpeckerColaptes rivoliirecording
- Golden-olive WoodpeckerColaptes rubiginosusrecording
- Green-barred WoodpeckerColaptes melanochlorosrecording
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratusrecording
- Spot-breasted WoodpeckerColaptes punctigularecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.