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WOODPECKERS -
PICIDAE - PART II
Piculus
to Campephilus
 | Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker Piculus callopterus Cerro Azul, Panama province, Panama Female. Endemic to Panama, where it inhabits montane forest. (S8) |
 | Lita Woodpecker Piculus litae La Unión, Esmeraldas, Ecuador Male.
A terrible shot, but I decided to upload it since it documents an
apparent nest. A female was perched nearby. 5 December 2016, 10:00am.
(S11) |
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Yellow-throated Woodpecker
Piculus
flavigula magnus
Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Male. (S11) |
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Yellow-throated Woodpecker
Piculus
flavigula erythropis
Folha Seca, São Paulo state, Brazil.
Male. The isolated
red-throated
race, endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest of southeastern Brazil;
it possibly merits full species status. (D3) |
 | Golden-green Woodpecker Piculus chrysochloros chrysochloros Pixaim, Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Male.
This is a rather widespread species, but doesn't really seem to be
common anywhere. It's found from Panama to Southeast Brazil. (S8) |
 | Golden-green Woodpecker Piculus chrysochloros chrysochloros Pixaim, Pantanal, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Female. (S8) |
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White-browed
(Yellow-browed) Woodpecker
Piculus
aurulentus
Itotoró Lodge, Varginha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Male. This woodpecker is endemic to the Atlantic Rainforest. (S11) |
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White-browed
(Yellow-browed) Woodpecker
Piculus
aurulentus
Hotel Veraneio Hampel, São
Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil.
Female. (D4) |
 | Golden-olive Woodpecker
Colaptes
rubiginosus rubripileus
Quebrada Limon, Lambayeque department, Peru.
Female, without the red malar of
the male. (D2) |
 | Golden-olive Woodpecker
Colaptes
rubiginosus alleni
Near Minca, Santa Marta mtns, Magdalena
department, Colombia.
Male. An endemic race to the Santa
Marta mountains. (D3) |
 | Golden-olive Woodpecker
Colaptes
rubiginosus chrysogaster
Villa Rica-Oxapampa road, Pasco department, Peru.
Female. This is a rather distinctive subspecies endemic
to Peru. It lacks barring on the belly and has a faint red wash on the
mantle. (S8) |
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Gray-crowned
Woodpecker
Colaptes
auricularis
La Soledad, Oaxaca state, Mexico.
Male. Endemic to western Mexico. (S5) |
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Crimson-mantled
Woodpecker
Colaptes
rivolii brevirostris
Tandayapa Bird Lodge, Pichincha province, Ecuador.
Male. A beautiful woodpecker of the
Andes. (S6) |
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Crimson-mantled
Woodpecker
Colaptes
rivolii brevirostris
Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha province, Ecuador.
Female. (S4) |
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Spot-breasted
Woodpecker
Colaptes
punctigula punctipectus
20km south of Calabozo, Guárico state,
Venezuela.
Male. This is the race occurring
through most of Venezuela, with a greenish cast to the back. (D3) |
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Green-barred
Woodpecker
Colaptes
melanochloros melanochloros
Santuário de Caraça, Minas Gerais state, Brazil.
Female. She is at her nest in a dead palm
tree. (S5) |
 | Green-barred Woodpecker
Colaptes
melanochloros leucofrenatus
Yavi,
Jujuy province, Argentina.
Male. Formerly treated as a distinct species, Golden-breasted Woodpecker,
but
the consensus these days is to lump it mainly due to evidence of
interbreeding. (D3) |
 | Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola puna El Infiernillo, Tucuman province, Argentina. Female.
This woodpecker of the high Andes is one of only a few members of the
family that is primarily terrestrial and thrives in areas above
treeline. (S8) |
 | Andean Flicker Colaptes rupicola rupicola El Infiernillo, Tucuman province, Argentina. Male. (S6) |
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Campo Flicker
Colaptes
campestris campestris
Pousada
Piuval, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.
Female. The nominate race, with a dark throat.
Like the previous species, it is quite terrestrial. (S8)
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Campo
Flicker
Colaptes
campestris campestroides
Quinta, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil.
Female. The southern race, with a pale throat,
which is often called "Field Flicker". (D4) |
 | Cinnamon Woodpecker Celeus loricatus loricatus Yalare, Esmeraldas province, Ecuador. Male. An attractive woodpecker found in lowland rainforest from Central America to western Ecuador. (S7) |

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Waved Woodpecker
Celeus
undatus undatus
Imitaca
Forest (Rio Grande), Bolívar state, Venezuela.
Female. (D3) |
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Scale-breasted
Woodpecker
Celeus
grammicus verreauxii
Yasuní Research Station, Orellana province,
Ecuador.
Female on the left, male on the right (with
the red cheek patch). (S6) |
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Scale-breasted
Woodpecker
Celeus
grammicus subcervinus
Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso state, Brazil.
Female. (S7) |
 | Chestnut-colored Woodpecker Celeus castaneus La Selva OTS, Heredia province, Costa Rica. Male. This handsome woodpecker inhabits Caribbean slope rainforest from S Mexico to Panama. (S8) |
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Pale-crested
Woodpecker
Celeus
lugubris lugubris
Pousada Piuval, Mato Grosso state,
Brazil
Male. (S6) |
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Blond-crested
Woodpecker
Celeus
flavescens flavescens
Serra dos Tucanos Lodge, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Female. Like Melanerpes, many Celeus woodpeckers
regularly eat fruit. This bird was coming in to bananas at a feeding station. (S5) |
 | Cream-colored Woodpecker
Celeus
flavus flavus
Yasuní Research Station, Orellana province, Ecuador.
Male. (S6) |
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Ringed Woodpecker
Celeus
torquatus occidentalis
Serra dos Carajás, Pará state, Brazil.
Male. I was originally confused by the race
information published in HBW, which implied that the nominate race
(which this clearly isn't) would be in Pará.
Rasmus Boegh helpfully set me straight on this: the nominate race only
occurs in Pará north of the Amazon,
with occidentalis
occurring south of the Amazon. There is a
recently described race pieteroyensi
from E Pará and W Maranhao, but apparently it is not a
widely accepted taxon, and it would be hard to separate from occidentalis. I
haven't been able to get a copy of the article yet, as it is described
in a rather obscure journal: Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio
Goeldi, sér. Zool. 8(2) : 386.
(D3) |
 | Helmeted Woodpecker Celeus galeatus Intervales State Park, São Paulo, Brazil Male.
A beautiful "woody" restricted to the Atlantic Forest region; it's
pretty rare and very localized, especially in Brazil. It's a bit
more common in eastern Paraguay and far northeastern Argentina. This
species has been transferred from Dryocopus to Celeus (see SACC 689) (S11) |
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Lineated
Woodpecker
Dryocopus
lineatus lineatus
El Paujil reserve, Santander department, Colombia.
Male, with a complete red crown and red malar.
(S5) |
 | Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus
lineatus lineatus
Cabañas Copalinga,
Zamora-Chinchipe province, Ecuador.
Female, lacking the red malar and forehead of the male. (D2) |
 | Powerful Woodpecker Campephilus pollens pollens
Tandayapa
Bird Lodge, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Female.
A classic Andean species, found sparsely from Colombia to Peru. The
female is rather distinctive, completely lacking any red in her
plumage. (S8) |
 | Powerful Woodpecker Campephilus pollens pollens
Tandayapa
Bird Lodge, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Male. One of a pair that was nesting in a dead Alnus tree near the lodge. (S8) |
 | Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster splendens Milpe road, Pichincha province, Ecuador. Male.
One of my favorite woodpeckers, and I was thrilled to finally get this
shot, despite the rain. This is quite a scarce woodpecker found in wet
foothill rainforest from Panama to Peru. (S8) |
 | Crimson-bellied Woodpecker Campephilus haematogaster splendens Trail between El Valle and Parque Nacional Utría, Chocó department, Colombia. Male. It's nowhere common, but seems to be especially rare in Colombia. (S8) |
 | Red-necked Woodpecker Campephilus rubricollis olallae Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Male. It's a big, beautiful
woodpecker of Amazonian and Guianan rainforests of South America. (S11) |
 | Robust
Woodpecker
Campephilus
robustus
Perequê, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Male. (S7) |

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Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Campephilus
melanoleucos malherbii
Pipeline road, Soberania National Park, Colón province, Panama.
Male. The most widespread of the Campephilus woodpeckers, found through much of tropical South America as well as Panama. (S8)
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Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Campephilus
melanoleucos malherbii
Panama Rainforest Discover Center, Colón province, Panama.
Pair; the female is on the top, and the male on the bottom. (S8)
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Guayaquil
Woodpecker
Campephilus
gayaquilensis
Milpe Bird Sanctuary, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Male. Very closely related to the previous species, which it
replaces in western Ecuador and adjacent areas of Peru and Colombia. (S8) |
 | Guayaquil
Woodpecker Campephilus
gayaquilensis
Buenaventura reserve, El Oro province, Ecuador.
Female. (S5) |
 | Cream-backed Woodpecker
Campephilus
leucopogon
San Lorenzo, Salta province, Argentina.
Male. A bird of drier forest from central Bolivia to northern Argentina. It especially likes Chaco woodland. (S6) |
 | Cream-backed Woodpecker
Campephilus
leucopogon
San Lorenzo, Salta province, Argentina. Female. This is one of the birds in the next photo. (S6) |
 | Cream-backed Woodpecker
Campephilus
leucopogon
San Lorenzo, Salta province, Argentina. A pair together; the male is the upper bird. (S6) |
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Magellanic
Woodpecker
Campephilus
magellanicus
Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina.
A male searching for food for a nearly full-grown fledgling.
A fantastic bird, and depending on the fate of the Ivory-bill, could be
the largest extant woodpecker in the New World. It inhabits the
southernmost forests of South America. (S8) |
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Magellanic
Woodpecker
Campephilus
magellanicus
Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina.
The same two birds as above - the adult male is feeding the juvenile. (S8) |
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Magellanic
Woodpecker
Campephilus
magellanicus
Tierra del Fuego National Park, Argentina.
Here the juvenile is trying to forage on its own. (S8) |
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