Colaptes vs bird genus

Colaptes and bird genus both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Colaptes	Yes	No	No	No
bird genus	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bird genus is a hypernym of Colaptes; that is, bird genus is a word with a broader meaning than Colaptes:

Colaptes (noun)	bird genus (noun)
a genus of Picidae, containing the flickers (Colaptes)	a genus of birds