Guatemalan flicker

Guatemalan flicker
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus guatemalensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Colaptes
Species: C. mexicanoides
Binomial name
Colaptes mexicanoides
Lafresnaye, 1844

The Guatemalan flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides) is a woodpecker in the Picidae family. Formerly lumped in with Colaptes Auratus this species is found in Central America from Southern Mexico through Guatemala, northern El Salvador and Honduras into northern Nicaragua.[1]

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