Spot-breasted woodpecker

Spot-breasted woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Colaptes
Species: C. punctigula
Binomial name
Colaptes punctigula
(Boddaert, 1783)

The spot-breasted woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in South America in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela; also eastern Panama of Central America. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.

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