Blond-crested woodpecker
| Blond-crested woodpecker | |
|---|---|
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| Male in São Paulo, Brazil | |
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| Female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Celeus |
| Species: | C. flavescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Celeus flavescens (Gmelin, 1788) | |
The blond-crested woodpecker (Celeus flavescens) is a species of bird in the Picidae family, the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks. It is found in Brazil, southeastern Paraguay, and extreme northeastern Argentina. A small disjunct population occurs at the Amazon River mouth and upstream, including the southern part of Ilha de Marajo. The ochre-backed woodpecker is often considered a subspecies.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Distribution
Range: Cerrado and Caatinga
In eastern and southeastern South America, the blond-crested woodpecker ranges in eastern and central portions of the cerrado; it is also in most of the caatinga. A small range of the bird, (disjunct), occurs at the mouth of the Amazon River and upstream for 800 km in the Amazon Basin; the range also covers the southern parts of Marajó Island.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Celeus flavescens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
- Blond-crested woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Blond-crested woodpecker photo galley VIREO Photo-High Res
- Blond-crested woodpecker: Photos, vocalizations from The Birds of the Interior of Ceará, Brazil