Campephilus rubricollis
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
The red-necked woodpecker (Campephilus rubricollis) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in every mainland South American country except Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
The red-necked woodpecker was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-colored plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name, but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Picus rubricollis in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The red-necked woodpecker was for a time placed in genus Scapaneus that was later merged into genus Phloeoceastes. The latter was itself merged into the current genus Campephilus that was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1840. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Brownsberg Nature Park | 🇸🇷 Suriname | |
| 3 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 7 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 8 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-necked Woodpecker sighting in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, based on 94 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 51st most-seen of the 221 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Red-necked Woodpecker in Brownsberg Nature Park on a given day, against about 20% in September and November–December, the lowest months. May to July have too few records to rate.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-necked Woodpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 8 parks where we can rate Red-necked Woodpecker sightings, Brownsberg Nature Park ranks 2nd at about 30%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Amboró National Park (Bolivia, about 30%).
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Red-necked Woodpecker that you can see in Brownsberg Nature Park (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Golden-olive Woodpecker (about 50%), Waved Woodpecker (about 30%) and Golden-collared Woodpecker (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-necked Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Brownsberg Nature Park (94 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
