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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
| − | + | 9–10 cm. Tiny, short, pointed bill; olive above, black cap with white spots, dusky cheeks with white streaks; pale olive to dusky below with light flank streaking. Male with yellow-orange streaked crown; female with no yellow-orange. | |
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==Distribution== | ==Distribution== | ||
| − | + | [[Guatemala]] to northwestern [[Ecuador]]. | |
==Taxonomy== | ==Taxonomy== | ||
==Habitat== | ==Habitat== | ||
| − | + | Humid tropical evergreen forest and forest edge, including plantations. | |
==Behaviour== | ==Behaviour== | ||
| − | + | Diet includes mainly ants, especially those that tunnel in dead twigs; also takes other insects and their eggs and larvae. | |
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| − | + | A nest cavity is excavated in soft wood, in a low stub, by both members of a pair. The pair roosts together in the cavity prior to nesting. 1–3 white eggs are laid and incubated for about 14 days by both parents; young fed by both parents and fledge at about age 24–26 days. | |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
{{GSearch|Picumnus+olivaceus}} | {{GSearch|Picumnus+olivaceus}} | ||
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Revision as of 14:18, 9 November 2007
- Picumnus olivaceus
Identification
9–10 cm. Tiny, short, pointed bill; olive above, black cap with white spots, dusky cheeks with white streaks; pale olive to dusky below with light flank streaking. Male with yellow-orange streaked crown; female with no yellow-orange.
Distribution
Guatemala to northwestern Ecuador.
Taxonomy
Habitat
Humid tropical evergreen forest and forest edge, including plantations.
Behaviour
Diet includes mainly ants, especially those that tunnel in dead twigs; also takes other insects and their eggs and larvae.
A nest cavity is excavated in soft wood, in a low stub, by both members of a pair. The pair roosts together in the cavity prior to nesting. 1–3 white eggs are laid and incubated for about 14 days by both parents; young fed by both parents and fledge at about age 24–26 days.
