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Aguas Calientes, Peru, December 2011

Picumnus dorbygnianus

[edit] Identification

10cm. A pale-looking Piculet.

• Black top of head with white feather tips, male with broad red feather tips on crown
• Buffish-whte lores and nasal tufts
• Buff-brown cheeks and ear-coverts streaked whitish, bordered above by short white stripe behind eye
• Buffy-white neck sides with darker streaking
• Pale grey-brown upperparts
• White underparts with darker feather edges giving scaly appearance, lower belly unmarked

Juveniles are duller and slightly darker than adults, diffusely barred above and below.

[edit] Distribution

Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru.
Uncommon to locally common in its range.

[edit] Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

• P. d. jelskii in the Andes of eastern Peru
• P. d. dorbygnianus in central Bolivia and extreme northwest Argentina

Forms a superspecies with White-barred Piculet and Ochre-collared Piculet.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes with many epiphytes, tall bushes in transitional forest in Argentina.
Occurs between 900m - 2500m, 1100m - 2200m in Peru.

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet. Usually seen in pairs or singly. Often in mixed-species flocks.
Often hangs upside-down on twigs and branches like a nuthatch.
No definite information about breeding. Breeds probably before December.
A resident species with some possible vertical movements.

[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

• List of references

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