Rufous-winged Woodpecker
Piculus simplex(Salvin, O, 1870)
English (US) Rufous-winged Woodpecker
The Rufous-winged Woodpecker (Piculus simplex) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Picidae (Woodpeckers) in the order Piciformes.
Range: forest and edge of lowlands and foothills on Caribbean slope from eastern Guatemala to Nicaragua, thence both slopes in Costa Rica and western PanamaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Piculus simplex
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Rufous-winged Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1870)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Chloronerpes simplex
- Described by
- (Salvin, O, 1870)
- Type locality
- Bugaba, Chiriqui.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1870, pt.2 p.212
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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