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Red-crowned Woodpecker
Melanerpes rubricapillus · Family Picidae
Melanerpes rubricapillus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 381,889
- Countries and territories with records
- 14
About this species
This species has 381,889 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Colombia (40.6%), Panama (26.9%), Venezuela (16.3%), Costa Rica (15.1%) and Trinidad and Tobago (1%); together they account for 99.9% of the total. In Colombia, this species accounts for 0.58% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Melanerpes rubricapillus combines the genus name Melanerpes with the species epithet rubricapillus. The Warbla app catalog lists 23 species of the genus Melanerpes; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Melanerpes carolinus, Melanerpes formicivorus and Melanerpes erythrocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 19th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is close to the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.