Red-crowned woodpecker (Melanerpes rubricapillus)

The red-crowned woodpecker is a resident breeding bird from southwestern Costa Rica south to Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Tobago.

This woodpecker occurs in forests and semi-open woodland and cultivation. It nests in a hole in a dead tree or large cactus. The clutch is two eggs, incubated by both sexes, which fledge after 31–33 days.

Adults are 20.5 cm long and weigh 48 g . They have a zebra-barred black and white back and wings and a white rump. The tail.. more