Alternative names: Sundevall's Piculet; Para Piculet (pallidus)
- Picumnus spilogaster
Identification
9cm. A tiny woodpecker.
- Black top of head with white feather tips, male with broad red feather tips on crown
- Buffish lores
- Dark brown ear-coverts vermiculated white
- White neck sides, finely barred black
- Dull olive-brown upperparts diffusely pale greyish barred
- Whitish chin and throat with black bars
- Pale yellowish-buff with broad black bars
- Cream-white lower breast to belly with sparse broad black spots, flanks occasionally barred
- orinocensis is usually unmarked below
Distribution
Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.
A poorly known species.
Taxonomy
Three subspecies recognized:
- P. s. pallidus in northeast Brazil (eastern Para)
- P. s. spilogaster in northern parts of Guianas and in northern Brazil (Roraima)
- P. s. orinocensis in central Venezuela
Sometimes considered to include Black-spotted Piculet.
Pallidus is sometimes included in Arrowhead Piculet.
Habitat
Rainforest, gallery forest and deciduous forest, also in open woodland and thickets. From lowlands up to 100m.
Behaviour
Diet unrecorded.
Usually seen singly or in pairs.
Breeding season probably from September to November. No information on nest or breeding.
Presumably a resident species.
References
- Clements, JF. 2011. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to August 2011. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
- Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and J Sargatal, eds. 2002. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 7: Jacamars to Woodpeckers. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334375
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-bellied Piculet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-bellied_Piculet
