Red-rumped woodpecker (male), Santa María, Colombia

The red-rumped woodpecker 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.. more