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title: "Californische grondspecht"
description: "Colaptes chrysoides — Vogels. The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of the Baja California peninsula except the extreme northwestern region."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/gilded-flicker
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Californische grondspecht

> Colaptes chrysoides — Vogels. The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of the Baja California peninsula except the extreme northwestern region.

- Scientific name: *Colaptes chrysoides*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 2707
- Wikidata: [Q596689](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q596689)
- iNaturalist taxon: [18256](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/18256)

## Names

- en: Gilded Flicker
- de: Wüstengoldspecht
- es: Carpintero de Pechera del Noroeste
- fr: Pic chrysoïde
- nl: Californische grondspecht
- pl: Dzięcioł pustynny

## Countries with the most observations

US (1826), MX (586)

## Summary

The gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides) is a large woodpecker (mean length of 29 cm (11 in)) of the Sonoran, Yuma, and eastern Colorado Desert regions of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, including all of the Baja California peninsula except the extreme northwestern region. Yellow underwings distinguish the gilded flicker from the northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) found within the same region, which has red underwings.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_flicker

## Photo

![Californische grondspecht](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gilded-flicker/medium.jpg)

Photo: Justin Philbois · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/341955457

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gilded-flicker?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).