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Golden Olive Woodpecker (Colaptes rubiginosus)

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These woodpeckers range from Mexico to northern Argentina. There are about twenty subspecies and those in Tobago are different from those in Trinidad. They eat mainly insects with some fruit and berries, and feed their young by regurgitation. (Tobago)