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Colaptes rubiginosus (Golden-olive Woodpecker)

Synonyms: Piculus rubiginosus; Picus rubiginosus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The golden-olive woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus) is a resident breeding bird from Mexico south and east to Guyana, northwest Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago. It was formerly placed in the genus Piculus. The scientific name rubiginosus means "full of rust", describing the color of the bird's wings and back.
View Wikipedia Record: Colaptes rubiginosus

Infraspecies

Colaptes rubiginosus aeruginosus
Colaptes rubiginosus alleni
Colaptes rubiginosus buenavistae
Colaptes rubiginosus canipileus
Colaptes rubiginosus chrysogaster
Colaptes rubiginosus coloratus
Colaptes rubiginosus deltanus
Colaptes rubiginosus guianae
Colaptes rubiginosus gularis
Colaptes rubiginosus meridensis
Colaptes rubiginosus nigriceps
Colaptes rubiginosus paraquensis
Colaptes rubiginosus rubiginosus
Colaptes rubiginosus rubripileus
Colaptes rubiginosus tobagensis
Colaptes rubiginosus trinitatis
Colaptes rubiginosus tucumanus
Colaptes rubiginosus viridissimus
Colaptes rubiginosus yucatanensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.64646
EDGE Score: 2.26659
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  82 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Mid-High [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  3

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ficus aurea (Florida strangler fig)[4]
Oreopanax oerstedianus[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
♦ 5Tropical Fruit-Eating Birds and Their Food Plants: A Survey of a Costa Rican Lower Montane Forest, Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, William A. Haber, K. Greg Murray, Carlos Guindon, Biotropica Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 173-192
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0