Cuban green woodpecker

Cuban green woodpecker
male
female, both X. p. percussus
Cuba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Subfamily: Picinae
Tribe: Dendropicini
Genus: Xiphidiopicus
Bonaparte, 1854
Species: X. percussus
Binomial name
Xiphidiopicus percussus
(Temminck, 1826)

The Cuban green woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Xiphidiopicus.[2] It is endemic to Cuba.

A distinctive, relatively small woodpecker of the general size and shape of a sapsucker, occasionally appearing crested, with bright olive-green upperparts and yellow underparts. Nape and upper breast are bright red with some black bases to feathers usually visible, with black chin and throat; red crown in males, black crown striped white in females. White face and supercilium, punctuated by black border to cheek. Yellow breast is streaked with black or greenish-black, yellow on flanks barred with black. Crissum is yellow with black barring. Females are significantly smaller than the male, generally shorter-billed. Juveniles are generally duller in plumage, showing more barring and streaking below. It measures 20–25 cm (7.9–9.8 in) in length and weighs 48–97 g (1.7–3.4 oz).[3]

Its natural habitats are dry forests, lowland moist forests, and heavily degraded former forest.


References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Xiphidiopicus percussus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. "ITIS Report: Xiphidiopicus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. Farnsworth, Andrew (2012). Schulenberg, T.S., ed. "Cuban Green Woodpecker (Xiphidiopicus percussus)". Neotropical Birds Online. Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 11 October 2011. External link in |website= (help)

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