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Photo by Valéry Schollaert
Itacoatiara, Amazonas, Brasil, December 2007

Picumnus varzeae

[edit] Identification

8-9cm. A tiny woodpecker.

• Black top of head with white feather tips, male with broad red feather tips on crown forming a solid red patch
• White lores speckled black
• Dark brown rest of plumage
• Underparts with rows of white-tipped black feathers

Juveniles are more barred below

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in Amazonian Brazil (lower Rio Madeira to extreme western Pará).
A little-known restricted-range species.

[edit] Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].
Hybridization with White-barred Piculet recorded.

[edit] Habitat

Moist lowland forests, varzea with dense undergrowth.

[edit] Behaviour

No information about diet.
Breeding season possibly from June to December. 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

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