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Esteros Del Iberá, Colonia Carlos Pellegrini, Argentina, January, 2017
Melanerpes cactorum

Identification

Distribution

Southeast Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.

Taxonomy

This species is monotypic.[1]

Habitat

Dry forests, dry shrubland, and high-altitude shrubland.


Behaviour

It drills holes in the trunks and branches of Prosopis flexuosa and feeds on the exuded sap.

References

  1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.

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