From Opus

Picumnus steindachneri

[edit] Identification

10cm. A distinctive piculet:

• Dark grey upperparts with faint pale scaling
• Prominent white fringes to wing feathers
• Black crown and breast spotted white
• White belly barred black
• Male has extensive red tips to crown feathers
• Voice: High-pitched trill lasting several seconds

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to Peru where found in the Andes of northwest Peru in southeast Amazonas and northwest San Martin.
A locally common restricted-range species. Threatened by logging in its tiny range and classified as vulnerable.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Moist montanes with many epiphytes and tall second growth.
Occurs between 1150m and 1800m, sometimes higher up to 2500m.

[edit] Behaviour

No data on diet.
Forages in pairs, family groups or singly, also in mixed-species flocks.
Looks for food low down in dense shrubbery and up at the end of thin twigs and on vines. Hammers loudly.
No 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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