Red-rumped Woodpecker

Red-rumped Woodpecker

Taxobox
name = Red-rumped Woodpecker
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Piciformes
familia = Picidae
genus = "Veniliornis"
species = "V. kirkii"
binomial = "Veniliornis kirkii"
binomial_authority = (Malherbe, 1845)

The Red-rumped Woodpecker, "Veniliornis kirkii", is a resident breeding bird from Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago.

The habitat of this small woodpecker is forests, more open woodland, and cultivation. Two or three white eggs are laid in a nest hole in a dead tree.

The Red-rumped Woodpecker is 16.5 cm long and weighs 28g. Adults are mainly golden-olive above with a few buff spots on the wings, and a red rump. Their buff-white underparts are finely barred with dark brown, and the tail is blackish brown. The bill is black.

Adult males have a red crown and yellow nape. In adult females, the crown is dark brown and the nape orange-brown.

Red-rumped Woodpeckers mainly eat insects. The call of this bird is a repeated "quee-quee-quee". Both sexes drum rapidly.

References

* Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
*cite book
last = ffrench
first = Richard
title = A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago
edition = 2nd edition
year = 1991
publisher = Comstock Publishing
isbn = 0-8014-9792-2
*cite book
last = Hilty
first = Steven L
title = Birds of Venezuela
publisher = Christopher Helm
date = 2003
location = London
isbn = 0-7136-6418-5


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