Crimson-mantled Woodpecker
Colaptes rivolii (Boissonneau, 1840)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Crimson-mantled Woodpecker, Colaptes rivolii, is a woodpecker of the Andes in north-west Venezuela and from south-west Colombia through Ecuador and Peru to central Bolivia. It lives in humid montane forest, using both the interior and the margins, and also the lower edge of páramo. Its range in Ecuador is mainly between 2,000 and 3,300 m. The bird is marked by a crimson red nape and mantle, with a black rump and tail. Males and females differ chiefly on the head, and juveniles are duller than adults.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: nw Venezuela to c Bolivia
