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Alternative name: Natterer's Piculet

Picumnus fuscus

[edit] Identification

10cm. A distinctive piculet.

• Blackish top of head, male with feathers of hindcrown broadly tipped reddish-orange
• Buffish-brown rest of head
• Rusty-buff hindneck and neck side
• Brown to brownish-green upperparts
• Pale buffish underparts with some faint barring

Juveniles undescribed.

[edit] Distribution

Found in northeast Bolivia and west-central Brazil.
Has a very small range but seems to be not uncommon.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Found in varzea forest (lowland riverine forest).

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet and 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

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