Dryocopus lineatus
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The lineated woodpecker (Dryocopus lineatus) is a very large woodpecker which is a resident breeding bird from southern Mexico to northern Argentina and Trinidad in the Caribbean. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the lineated woodpecker in his Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. He used the French name Le pic noir hupé de Cayenne and the Latin name Picus niger cayanensis cristatus. Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the 12th edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson. One of these was the lineated woodpecker. Linnaeus included a terse description, coined the binomial name Picus lineatus, and cited Brisson's work. The specific name lineatus is Latin and means "lined" or "marked with lines". The lineated woodpecker is now one of six species that the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy place in the genus Dryocopus. The... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Valencia | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 9 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 10 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 2 | Mangal das Garças | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Zoológico do Município de São Bernardo do Campo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lineated Woodpecker sighting in Carara National Park on a given day, based on 1,009 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 134th most-seen of the 414 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lineated Woodpecker in Carara National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September, the lowest month. Those are among Carara National Park's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain a month against 730 mm in October.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lineated 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.
18th of 68
Of the 68 parks where we can rate Lineated Woodpecker sightings, Carara National Park ranks 18th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tikal National Park (Guatemala, about 40%), Calakmul Biosphere Reserve (Mexico, about 30%) and Amboró National Park (Bolivia, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Lineated Woodpecker that you can see in Carara National Park (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Hoffmann's Woodpecker (about 50%), Pale-billed Woodpecker (about 20%) and Golden-naped Woodpecker (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lineated Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Carara National Park (1,009 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.
