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Pantanal, Brazil

Piculus chrysochloros

Distribution

Central and South America: found from tropical eastern Panama to northern Argentina.

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 9 subspecies^[1]:

• P. c. aurosus:

• Tropical eastern Panama

• P. c. xanthochlorus:

• Northern Colombia and north-western Venezuela

• P. c. capistratus:

• South-eastern Colombia to north-western Brazil and Suriname

• P. c. guianensis:

• French Guiana

• P. c. paraensis:

• North-eastern Brazil

• P. c. laemostictus:

• North-western Brazil

• P. c. hypochryseus:

• Western Brazil to northern Bolivia

• P. c. chrysochloros:

• Central and southern Brazil to Bolivia, western Paraguay and northern Argentina

• P. c. polyzonus:

• South-eastern Brazil (Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro)

References

1. Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Golden-green Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Golden-green_Woodpecker

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