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Celeus spectabilis

[edit] Identification

Male differ from female mainly in having red malar stripe.
Yellowish-buffy on underside, except for black in throat area and upper breast and black barring on flanks. Upperparts are greyer, strongly barred black except on neck which is prominent as a yellowish ring. Head and distal part of wing brownish to rufous, tail dark.

[edit] Similar species

Adult Kaempfer's Woodpecker differs in being smaller, lack black barring on flanks and less strongly barred on nape, and have reduced black on breast. Juvenile of this form lacks black barring on back and has head except crest blackish connecting down to black on breast (expected in August to October, with an immature observed in January).

[edit] Distribution

Northern Bolivia, westernmost Brazil, eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru.

[edit] Taxonomy

Two subspecies recognized:

• C. s. spectabilis in the lowlands of eastern Ecuador and adjacent northeast Peru
• C. s. exsul in tropical southeast Peru, extreme western Brazil and northern Bolivia

It was formerly considered conspecific with Kaempfer's Woodpecker.

[edit] Habitat

Tropical humid forests and woodland. It is often associated with bamboo.

[edit] Behaviour

Breeding starts in June-July

[edit] References

1. Clements, James F. 2007. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2007. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801445019
2. SACC proposal to change the name of Kaempfer's Woodpecker
3. Leite et al. 2010. First description of the juvenile plumage of the critically endangered Kaempfer's Woodpecker Celeus obrieni of central Brazil. Ornithologia Tropical 21: 453-456

• List of references

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