Alternative names: Guttate Piculet (guttifer); Blackish Piculet
- Picumnus albosquamatus
Identification
10-11cm. A tiny woodpecker.
- Black top of head with fine white spots, male with forecrown feathers tipped red
- Buffish-white nasal tufts
- Buffish-white lores bordered by black line across lower forehead
- Whitish side of head strongly tinged brown and with black feather margins
- White line behind eye
- Warm brown to greyish-brown upperparts
- Whitish underparts with black borders to feathers giving a scaly appearance, especially on chin, throat and upper breast
Juveniles are duller and have a less contrasting pattern
Distribution
South America: found in Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Locally not uncommon.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized[1]:
- P. a. albosquamatus:
- P. a. guttifer:
- Brazil (eastern Mato Grosso to Pará, Maranhão, Goiás and Minas Gerais)
Habitat
Forests and forest edges, and cerrado.
Occurs from lowlands to foothills, locally up to 2100m.
Behaviour
No information about diet.
Juveniles recorded from May to December. One nest-hole was made 1.5m above the ground in a fence post in September in Brazil. No other information about 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
- Avibase
- Arthur Grosset
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) White-wedged Piculet. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/White-wedged_Piculet
External Links
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