Blood-coloured Woodpecker
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| Blood-coloured Woodpecker | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Veniliornis |
| Species: | V. sanguineus |
| Binomial name | |
| Veniliornis sanguineus (Lichtenstein, 1793) |
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The Blood-coloured Woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family, the woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks. It is found only in the Guianan countries of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, on the Atlantic shoreline region in a narrow coastal strip, 140–180 km wide. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, and heavily degraded former forest.
[edit] References
- BirdLife International 2009. Veniliornis sanguineus. 2011 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 11 October 2011.
[edit] External links
- "Blood-colored Woodpecker" photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res--(Close-up)
- Photo-High Res--(Male); Article antpitta.com – "Picidae: Photo Gallery"
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