Beautiful Woodpecker (Melanerpes pulcher)
About the Beautiful Woodpecker
The beautiful woodpecker (Melanerpes pulcher) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is endemic to Colombia. From about the middle of the 20th century until early in the 21st century most taxonomic systems treated the beautiful woodpecker and the golden-naped woodpecker (M. chrysauchen) as conspecific. The combined species and several others were for a time placed in genus Tripsurus. The beautiful woodpecker is monotypic.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 7 recordings for this species: 4 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 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.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Acorn WoodpeckerMelanerpes formicivorusrecording
- Black-cheeked WoodpeckerMelanerpes pucheranirecording
- Lewis's WoodpeckerMelanerpes lewisrecording
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinusrecording
- Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalusrecording
- Yellow-tufted WoodpeckerMelanerpes cruentatusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.