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Guatemalan Flicker

Colaptes mexicanoides

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesShrublandCavity nestMedium · 131 g
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 1
Photo: Derek Spencer · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 2
Photo: Nohemy Juc · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 3
Photo: Diego Blanco · CC0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 4
Photo: Holly Meredyk · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 5
Photo: Tenoch Cuauhtémoc Perez · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 6
Photo: Tenoch Cuauhtémoc Perez · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 7
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 8
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 9
Photo: Gray, George Robert; Hullmandel & Walton; Hullmandel, Charles Joseph; Mitchell, D. W. · Public domain
Guatemalan Flicker (Colaptes mexicanoides), photo 10
Photo: Tommy Andriollo · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The Guatemalan flicker is 25.9 to 32.9 cm (10 to 13 in) long and weighs about 115 to 135 g (4.1 to 4.8 oz). The sexes have almost the same plumage, differing only on the face. Females have a cinnamon "mustache" and males a bright red one. Adults of both sexes have a cinnamon rufous to rufous-chestnut crown and nape on an otherwise gray face, throat, and neck. Their back has wide black and light brown bars. Their rump and uppertail coverts are white with some black spots on the former and black bars on the latter.

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When to see the Guatemalan Flicker

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Guatemalan Flicker

Regular range

The map shades 5 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua El Salvador

About the Guatemalan Flicker

The Guatemalan flicker is a species of bird in the family Picidae, the woodpeckers. It is found in Middle America from southern Mexico to Nicaragua.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Chilean Flicker (Colaptes pitius) Chilean FlickerColaptes pitiusThe Chilean flicker is about 30 cm (12 in) long and weighs 100 to 163 g (3.5 to 5.7 oz). Crimson-mantled Woodpecker (Colaptes rivolii) Crimson-mantled WoodpeckerColaptes rivoliiThe crimson-mantled woodpecker is 23 to 26 cm (9.1 to 10 in) long and weighs 85 to 112 g (3.0 to 4.0 oz). Andean Flicker (Colaptes rupicola) Andean FlickerColaptes rupicolaThe Andean flicker is about 32 cm (13 in) long.

Side by side: Crimson-mantled Woodpecker vs Guatemalan Flicker · Chilean Flicker vs Guatemalan Flicker · Andean Flicker vs Guatemalan Flicker

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