- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | BB33-0405 |
| Description: | Centurus Rubricapillus |
| Country or State: | Panama |
| Year: | 27.10.1965 |
| Face Value: | 3 c - Panamanian centésimo |
| Series: | Endemic birds |
| Subject/Theme: | Red-crowned woodpecker (CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS) |
| Legend: | PANAMA, CARPINETERO: CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS, 3c |
| Designer: | Printed by Thomas De La Rue Designed by C. Alonso |
| Perforation: | 14 |
| Printing: | Offset lithography |
| Dimensions (B x H): | 34 x 52 mm |
| Catalog Number: | Michel PA 846 Stamp Number PA 462B Yvert et Tellier PA 419 Stanley Gibbons PA 917 |
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The red-crowned woodpecker is a resident breeding bird from southwestern Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and Tobago. The adult is 17 cm (6.7 in) long and weighs 55 g (1.9 oz). It has a zebra-barred black and white back and wings and a white rump. The tail is black with some white barring, and the underparts are pale buff-brown. The male has a red crown patch and nape. The female has a buff crown and duller nape. Immature birds are duller, particularly in the red areas of the head and neck. Although this species is very similar in appearance to the golden-fronted woodpecker (Melanerpes aurifrons) and the Yucatan woodpecker (Melanerpes pygmaeus), its distribution does not overlap with either of these species. |
