Piculus chrysochloros
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
The golden-green woodpecker (Piculus chrysochloros) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Panama and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay. The golden-green woodpecker's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and the Clements taxonomy recognize these six subspecies:
However, a 2013 study found that they are not "diagnosable units". Subspecies P. c. xanthochlorus has at times been treated as a separate species. Some authors treat the golden-green woodpecker and the yellow-browed woodpecker (P. aurulentus) as a superspecies.
This article follows the six-subspecies model. The... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | Darién National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 8 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 9 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden-green Woodpecker sighting in Asuncion on a given day, based on 166 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 82nd most-seen of the 224 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Golden-green Woodpecker in Asuncion on a given day, against under 5% in May and July, the lowest months. That is one of Asuncion's driest months, with about 40 mm of rain against 190 mm in November.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Golden-green 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.
Only Asuncion, in our data
Asuncion is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Golden-green Woodpecker sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Golden-green Woodpecker that you can see in Asuncion (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Campo Flicker (about 40%), White-barred Piculet (about 20%) and Green-barred Woodpecker (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Golden-green Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Asuncion (166 verified sightings), 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.
