pecks, hammers, probes, prys, and sometimes gleans to capture its prey. Its primary diet is ants, termites, and wood-boring beetles and their larvae; it adds fruits and berries but rarely. Breeding The golden-olive woodpecker's breeding season has not been determined for its whole range, but it appears to vary geographically. It breeds between January and May from Mexico to Colombia, from December or January to June or July in Ecuador and Peru, and the season perhaps includes October in Guyana. It excavates its nest cavity in a living or dead tree or palm, anywhere between above the ground. Both sexes incubate the clutch of two to four eggs but the incubation period is not known. Both parents provision nestlings by regurgitation for the approximately 24 days between hatch and fledging. Vocal and non-vocal sounds The golden-olive woodpecker's song is "a protracted rising rattling trill." Its other vocalizations include a repeated "loud, clear dree", a "single sharp deeeeh", a "sharp kyown", a "churr, choo-úr", a "liquid woick-woick-woick", and a "utzia-deek". It occasionally drums in "rolls very short, sometimes repeated at short intervals; sometimes as clearly separated strikes." Status The IUCN has assessed the golden-olive woodpecker as being of Least Concern. It has an extremely large range but its population size is not known and is believed to be decreasing. No immediate threats have been identified. It is considered fairly common to common in most of its range and occurs in many protected areas. "This widespread species’ ability to live in a wide variety of wooded habitats suggests that its future is secure." References Further reading External links Golden-olive woodpecker stamps from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Trinidad and Tobago at bird-stamps.org golden-olive woodpecker Birds of Central America Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Birds of Mexico Birds of El Salvador Birds of Nicaragua Birds of Belize Birds of Guatemala Birds of Honduras Birds of Costa Rica Birds of Panama Birds of the Northern Andes Birds of the Guianas Birds of Trinidad and Tobago golden-olive woodpecker