Order
Piciformes
Family
Picidae
Genus
Colaptes
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Gray-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis

Cara Thompson and C. J. Beardmore
Version: 1.0 — Published July 25, 2014

References

Introduction

Banks, R.C., R.T. Chesser, C. Cicero, J.L. Dunn, A.W. Kratter, I.J. Lovette, P.C. Rasmussen, J.V. Remsen, Jr., J.D. Rising, D.F. Stotz, and K. Winker. 2008. Forty-ninth supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American birds. Auk 125: 758-768.

Baptista, L.F. 1978. A revision of the Mexican Piculus complex. Wilson Bulletin 90: 159-181.

Benz, B.W., M.B. Robbins, and A.T. Peterson. 2006. Evolutionary history of woodpeckers and allies (Aves: Picidae): placing key taxa on the phylogenetic tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 389–399.

Berlanga, H., J.A. Kennedy, T.D. Rich, M.C. Arizmendi, C.J. Beardmore, P.J. Blancher, G.S. Butcher, A.R. Couturier, A.A. Dayer, D.W. Demarest, W.E. Easton, M. Gustafson, E. Iñigo-Elias, E.A. Krebs, A.O. Panjabi, V. Rodriguez Contreras, K.V. Rosenberg, J.M. Ruth, E. Santana Castellón, R. Ma. Vidal, and T.C. Will. 2010. Saving our shared birds: Partners in Flight tri-national vision for landbird conservation. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.

BirdLife International. 2014. Species factsheet: Grey-crowned Woodpecker Colaptes auricularis. Downloaded from BirdLife International on 25 March 2014.

Dunning, J. B., Jr. 2008. CRC handbook of avian body masses. Second edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Gorman, G. 2014. Woodpeckers of the world: the complete guide. Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom.

Hutto, R.L. 1980. Winter habitat distribution of migratory land birds in western Mexico, with special reference to small foliage-gleaning insectivores. Pages 181-203 in A. Keast and E. Morton (editors), Migrant birds in the Neotropics: ecology, behavior, distribution, and conservation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Moore, W.S., L.C. Overton, and K.J. Miglia. 2011. Mitochondrial DNA based phylogeny of the woodpecker genera Colaptes and Piculus, and implications for the history of woodpecker diversification in South America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58: 76-84.

Ridgway, R. 1914. The birds of North and Middle America. Part VI. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 50, part 6.

Schaldach, W.J., Jr. 1963. The avifauna of Colima and adjacent Jalisco, Mexico. Proceedings of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology 1: 1-100.

Short, L.L. 1982. Woodpeckers of the world. Delaware Museum of Natural History Monograph Series number 4.

Winkler, H., and D.A. Christie. 2002. Grey-crowned Woodpecker Piculus auricularis. Page 509 in J. del Hoyo, A, Elliott, and J. Sargatal (editors). Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 7. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

Winkler, H., D.A. Christie, and D. Nurney. 1995. Woodpeckers: a guide to the woodpeckers of the world. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts.

Recommended Citation

Thompson, C. and C. J. Beardmore (2014). Gray-crowned Woodpecker (Colaptes auricularis), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.grcwoo1.01