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Red-rumped Woodpecker
Veniliornis kirkii (Malherbe, 1845)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Red-rumped Woodpecker, Veniliornis kirkii, is a woodpecker of Middle America and north-western South America, ranging from Costa Rica south through Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and into north-western Brazil and Peru. It is a resident bird across its range. The species is placed in the family Picidae and has five recognised subspecies. It lives in a broad spread of open lowland and foothill habitats, including wet and secondary forest, mangrove edges, gallery forest, dry scrub, deciduous woodland, savanna with scattered trees, and coconut plantations.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: Costa Rica to nw SA
