Northern Andean flicker

Northern Andean flicker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Colaptes
Species: C. cinereicapillus
Binomial name
Colaptes cinereicapillus
Reichenbach, 1854

The northern Andean flicker (Colaptes cinereicapillus) is a woodpecker in the Picidae family. It was once considered conspecific with the southern Andean flicker and both were known as Colaptes rupicola. It is found in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru.[2]

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