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Golden-green Woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros)

Golden-green Woodpecker
Photo: Francesco Veronesi from Italy via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Golden-green Woodpecker

The golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Panama and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. The golden-green woodpecker's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy recognize these six subspecies: P. c. xanthochlorus (Sclater, P.L. & Salvin, 1875) P. c. capistratus (Malherbe, 1862) P. c. laemostictus Todd, 1937 P. c. paraensis (Snethlage, E., 1907) P. c. polyzonus (Valenciennes, 1826) P. c. chrysochloros (Vieillot, 1818)

Source: Golden-green woodpecker on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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No audio on this page yet

We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 67 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. 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 Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.

Other birds you can hear here

These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.