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==Identification== | ==Identification== |
Revision as of 14:46, 6 April 2017
- Veniliornis affinis
Identification
15-18 cm.
Male
- Cinnamon-buff lower forehead and lores
- Black upper forehead and crown, crown feathers tipped red (becoming golden-yellow on nape and hindneck)
- Olive streaked dark buffish ear-coverts
- Buffish chin and malar region
- Yellowish-green upperparts with some red suffusion
- Pale yellow shaft streaks
- Variably barred rump and uppertail-coverts
- Yellowish subterminal spots and reddish tips on wing-coverts
- Dark brown flight-feathers edged green
- Dark brown uppertail yellowish barred
- Light cinnamon-buff underparts, whiter on lower underparts, dark olive-brown barred
- Straight blackish, longish bill, paler on lower mandible
Female
- Dark olive-brown crown
- Golden-yellow streaks on hindcrown merging with golden nape
Juveniles similar to adults but with a darker face and more streaked.
Distribution
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
A poorly known species, uncommon (or overlooked) in most of its range.
Taxonomy
Four subspecies recognized:
- V. a. orenocensis from southeast Colombia to south Venezuela and north Brazil
- V. a. hilaris from east Ecuador through east Peru to north Bolivia and west Mato Grosso
- V. a. ruficeps in central and northeast Brazil (south to Mato Grosso)
- V. a. affinis in eastern Brazil (Alagoas and east Bahia)
Formerly treated conspecific with Choco Woodpecker, sometimes with Golden-collared Woodpecker.
Habitat
Found in tall lowland rainforest, mostly in terra firme forest, also in várzea forest.
Occurs up to 1300 m in Peru, from 100 to 500 m in Venezuela.
Behaviour
Diet
Feeds on arthropods and fruit.
Forages singly or in pairs, often in mixed-species flocks. Attends army-ant swarms to catch flushed insects.
Breeding
Breeding season presumably January to September. No other information.
Movements
This is a resident species.
Reference
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Red-stained Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 19 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Red-stained_Woodpecker