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Male
Photo by Carlos Henrique
Pousada Jacauna, Brotas, SP, Brazil, November 2009

Alternative names: Guttate Piculet (guttifer); Blackish Piculet

Picumnus albosquamatus

[edit] Identification

10-11cm. A tiny woodpecker.

• Black top of head with fine white spots, male with forecrown feathers tipped red
• Buffish-white nasal tufts
• Buffish-white lores bordered by black line across lower forehead
• Whitish side of head strongly tinged brown and with black feather margins
• White line behind eye
• Warm brown to greyish-brown upperparts
• Whitish underparts with black borders to feathers giving a scaly appearance, especially on chin, throat and upper breast

Juveniles are duller and have a less contrasting pattern

Female
Photo by Rogerio Araújo Dias
Goios, Brazil

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Locally not uncommon.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• P. a. albosquamatus:

• Northern Bolivia to south-western Brazil (Mato Grosso) and adjacent northern Paraguay

• P. a. guttifer:

• Brazil (eastern Mato Grosso to Pará, Maranhão, Goiás and Minas Gerais)

[edit] Habitat

Forests and forest edges, and cerrado.
Occurs from lowlands to foothills, locally up to 2100m.

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet.
Juveniles recorded from May to December. One nest-hole was made 1.5m above the ground in a fence post in September in Brazil. No other information about breeding.
Presumably a resident species.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and J Sargatal, eds. 2002. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334375
3. Avibase
4. Arthur Grosset

• List of references

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