Genus
Colaptes (Flickers and allies)
Colaptes auratus luteus × cafer. Photo: (c) Leslie S, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Colaptes is the genus of woodpeckers which contains the flickers. The scientific name means “the pecker”, Latinized from the Greek verb kolápto (κολάπτω), “to peck”.
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