• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Ochre-backed Woodpecker - BirdForum Opus

Page Discussion
View source History

Photo © by renato.santos.4b
Mateiros, Tocantins, Brazil, 27 August 2021
Celeus ochraceus

Identification

Female Ochre-backed Woodpecker
Photo © by Francisco Paludo
Arajara Park, Barbalha, CE, Brazil, July 2017

27–30 cm (10½-11¾ in)
Male

  • Black upperparts with narrow white or buff stripes
  • Blond crest
  • Red malar and cheek band

Female

  • Streaked black and white
  • Lacks red malar stripe

Similar Species

Differs from similar Blond-crested Woodpecker in that Ochre-backed Woodpecker is smaller, has darker head, and pale barring on upperparts much broader and more broken up into scaling and dotting.

Distribution

In South America, this species can be found in the lower Amazonian Brazil (south of the Amazon in Para); northeastern Brazil, from Maranhao south to northern Goías and east to Ceara, Pernambuco, and western Bahia

Taxonomy

This species is split from Blond-crested Woodpecker in accord with AOS-SACC (Proposals 742 and 793)

Subspecies

This species is monotypic[1]:

Habitat

Humid forest, savanna and scrub.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of ants and termites, with the addition of some fruit.

Breeding

They nest in tree holes, often utilising the nests of arboreal ants.

Vocalisations

Loud tsew tsew, wee-wee-week, also well-spaced series of wheep notes.

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
  2. Arthur Grosset
  3. Birdforum thread discussing taxonomy of Celeus woodpeckers
  4. del Hoyo, J., N. Collar, and D. A. Christie (2020). Ochre-backed Woodpecker (Celeus ochraceus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.blcwoo5.01

Recommended Citation

External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

Retrieved from ‘https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ochre-backed_Woodpecker&oldid=254241’
Back
Top