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Green-barred Woodpecker
Colaptes melanochloros (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Green-barred Woodpecker, Colaptes melanochloros, breeds in eastern, central and south-eastern South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is a woodpecker of the Picidae family, first described by Gmelin in 1788. The species occupies a wide spread of habitats, from dry scrub to humid forest, and is mainly a bird of lowlands and foothills, reaching 3,000 m in Bolivia. It is marked by barred upperparts, with plumage that varies across its subspecies, and the sexes differ chiefly in the head pattern.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: e, c, se
