Blood-colored Woodpecker

Blood-colored Woodpecker / Dryobates sanguineus

Blood-colored Woodpecker

Here the details of the Blood-colored Woodpecker named bird below:

SCI Name:  Dryobates sanguineus
Protonym:  Picus sanguineus Cat.Rer.nat.rar. p.17 no.184
Taxonomy:  Piciformes / Picidae /
Taxonomy Code:  blcwoo3
Type Locality:  America = Guiana.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1793
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

DRYOBATES
(Picidae; Ϯ Downy Woodpecker D. pubescens) Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; βατης batēs  walker  < βατεω bateō  to tread  < βαινω bainō  to walk; "XXIX. Fam. Picidae  ...  Dryobates: Picus pubescens Gm. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); “In the 1st edition of the List and in the Cat. Birds B. M. the generic name Dendrocopus is used. This was first introduced by Koch [Dendrocopos 1816] ...  for the Spotted Woodpeckers. The same name, however, had previously been used by Vieillot [1816] ...  The type of Vieillot’s Dendrocopus is either “le Picucule” or “le Talapiot” of Daubenton, now known respectively as Dendrocolaptes certhia (Bodd.) and Dendroplex picus (Gmel.), both of which belong to the family Dendrocolaptidae. Dendrocopus cannot therefore be used for the Spotted Woodpeckers.” (BOU 1915); "Dryobates Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 977. Type, by monotypy, Picus pubescens Linné." (Peters, 1948, VI, p. 180).
Synon. Hyloscopus.

dryobates
Gr. δρυς drus, δρυος druos  tree; βατης batēs  walker  < βατεω bateō  to tread  < βαινω bainō  to walk.

sanguineum / sanguineus
L. sanguineus  bloody  < sanguis, sanguinis  blood.
● The types of this form were collected by Capt. N. B. Blood (see bloodi) (subsp. Cnemophilus macgregorii).