Bird Guide

Campo Flicker vs Golden-olive Woodpecker

Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris)

Campo Flicker

Colaptes campestris

Medium158 gGrassland

The campo flicker is about 30 cm (12 in) long and weighs about 150 g (5.3 oz). Males and females have the same plumage except on their faces; males have a red malar stripe and females a black one. Adults of both subspecies have a black crown and a yellow face with white around the eye. Subspecies campestris has a black throat and campestroides a white one, their only difference. Both subspecies' upperparts are brown with dull white bars; their rump is white with a few narrow dark bars. Their flight feathers are brown with yellow shafts. Voice: The campo flicker has a large vocal repertoire. Its song is a "rapid 'wicwicwic---'" repeated 10 to 12 times. Calls tend to be high, sharp, and nasal: "tih", "tir", or "wur". Pairs duet with a "high 'wicwicwic' immediately answered by low 'wucwucwuc'."

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Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Golden-olive Woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus)

Golden-olive Woodpecker

Colaptes rubiginosus

Small56 gForest

The golden-olive woodpecker is 18 to 23 cm (7.1 to 9.1 in) long. Males and females have the same plumage except on their heads. Adult males of the nominate subspecies C. r. rubiginosus have a slate gray forehead and crown with a red border and nape. They are pale buff to whitish from their lores around the eye to the red of the nape. They have a wide red malar stripe and a pale buffy white chin and upper throat; the last has heavy blackish streaks. Adult females have red only on their nape, and their malar area has streaks like the throat.

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Recording: Niels Krabbe · CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: (c) Christoph Moning, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Christoph Moning · cc-by

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