Golden-green Woodpecker

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae

Genus

Piculus

eBird Code

gogwoo1

Subspecies (6)

• Piculus chrysochloros capistratus

  eastern Ecuador, northern Peru, and southeastern Colombia east, north of the Amazon River, to northeastern Brazil and the Guianas

• Piculus chrysochloros chrysochloros

  central and southern Brazil to Bolivia, western Paraguay, and northern Argentina

• Piculus chrysochloros laemostictus

  eastern Peru and northern Bolivia eastward, south of the Amazon River, to central Amazonian Brazil

• Piculus chrysochloros paraensis

  northeastern Brazil

• Piculus chrysochloros polyzonus

  eastern Brazil, from southern Bahia and eastern Minas Gerais to Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro (where perhaps now extirpated)

• Piculus chrysochloros xanthochlorus

  eastern Panama, northern Colombia, and northwestern Venezuela