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Picumnus castelnau

[edit] Identification

8-9cm. A tiny woodpecker.

• Black top of head, male with broad red feather tips on central crown
• Finely whitish vermiculated lower nape
• Buffish-white lores and nasal tufts
• Brown ear-coverts vermiculated grey and whitish
• Barred or vermiculated buff-grey hindneck and neck sides
• Dark greyish-olive upperparts
• White underparts lightly washed yellowish

Juvenile similar to female but duller with stronger hint of barrin above and faint barring below.

[edit] Similar species

Redder crown tips, no white nape spots and paler unbarred underparts compared to Fine-barred Piculet.

[edit] Distribution

From southeast Colombia to eastern Peru. An old record from Ecuador probably not valid.
Rare to uncommon in its range but probably overlooked.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
May occasionally hybridize with Fine-barred Piculet.

[edit] Habitat

Subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, particularly swamp-forest and varzea forest.
Occurs from lowlands up to 900m.

[edit] Behaviour

Diet not recorded.
Forages solitary and in pairs, sometimes in mixed-species flocks.
Breeding season probably from May to July. No other information.
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

• List of references

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