Northern Red-shafted Flicker

Colaptes cafer

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae

The Guatemalan flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides) is a species of bird in the family Picidae, the woodpeckers. It is found in Middle America from southern Mexico to Nicaragua. Taxonomy and systematics The Guatemalan flicker was described in 1844 by Frédéric de Lafresnaye under the name Colaptes mexicanoides.

Distribution

Northern Red-shafted Flicker — (c) Bob Dodge, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 1,869Canada · 631

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Bob Dodge, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionGuatemalan flicker, Wikipedia contributors

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