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Photo by kegressy
Bella vista, Ecuador, August 2004

Colaptes rivolii

Piculus rivolii

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

South America: found from the Andes of Venezuela and Colombia, to northern Bolivia.

[edit] Taxonomy

It was formely placed in the genus Piculus.

[edit] Subspecies

Photo by Ecuadorrebel
Pasachoa Wildlife Reserve, Ecuador, February 2010

There are 5 subspecies^[1]{

• C. r. rivolii:

• Andes of east-central Colombia to north-western Venezuela

• C. r. meridae:

• Andes of western Venezuela (Merida and T chira)

• C. r. quindiuna:

• Andes of north-central Colombia

• C. r. brevirostris:

• Andes of south-western Colombia to central Peru

• C. r. atriceps:

• Andes of south-eastern Peru and southern Bolivia

[edit] Habitat

Cloud forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. SACC proposal to transfer this species to genus Colaptes
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links

• View movie-file of this species (in Picasa video format) here