Golden-breasted woodpecker

Golden-breasted woodpecker
Probable golden-breasted woodpecker in Uruguay (note pale green upperside with extensive black barring)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Colaptes
Species: C. melanolaimus
Binomial name
Colaptes melanolaimus

The golden-breasted woodpecker (Colaptes melanolaimus) is a bird in the woodpecker family, Picidae. It is found from central Bolivia south through western Paraguay and western Uruguay to central Argentina. It was previously considered a subspecies C. melanochlorus melanolaimus.[1]

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