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Photo by Jamfaraco
Lages/SC, Brazil, November 2004

Picumnus nebulosus

[edit] Identification

10-11cm. A tiny woodpecker.

• Black forehead to nape with white spots, male with red spots on crown
• Warm olive-brown upperparts tinged buff or rusty on back and scapulars
• Dark brown to blackish upperwings
• White malar, chin and throat thinly barred black
• Rusty buffish-brown breast
• Pale buff belly with broad blackish streaks, spots or U-shaped bars

Juveniles duller with dull brown crown streaked pale buffish.

[edit] Distribution

South-east Brazil, extreme northeast Argentina and Uruguay.
Local and uncommon, very few recent records from Argentina.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Probably related to Tawny Piculet.

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forest with dense understorey. Often in bamboo.
Occurs from lowlands up to 1100m, locally higher.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet includes insect larvae. No other information.
Forages singly, also in mixed-species flocks. Often seen feeding at low levels in dead bamboo.
Breeding season from October to December. No other information about breeding.
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

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