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Golden-olive Woodpecker
Colaptes rubiginosus · Family Picidae
Colaptes rubiginosus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 234,221
- Countries and territories with records
- 24
About this species
This species has 234,221 occurrence records from 24 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (18.9%), Costa Rica (15%), Guatemala (13.1%), Ecuador (12.6%) and Belize (9.1%); together they account for 68.6% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.17% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Colaptes rubiginosus combines the genus name Colaptes with the species epithet rubiginosus. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Colaptes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Colaptes auratus, Colaptes melanochloros and Colaptes campestris.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 26th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 58.5% of the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.