Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus) [XC84029]
by Jeremy Minns from Paragominas, PA, Brazil, Bacia 245, Brazil (call, drum and call)
Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus) [XC271943]
by Peter Boesman from Colakreek, Para, Suriname (call, call flight)
Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade extensively, producing many intermediates, and in much of range many individuals impossible to assign to a particular subspecies. Geographical limits given are therefore somewhat arbitrary. Subspecies peruvianus and tectricialis perhaps better merged with nominate. Birds from north-eastern Amazonian Brazil named as subspecies inornatus, but inseparable from nominate.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
flavus (Müller, 1776) - Eastern Colombia, south-western and north-eastern Venezuela and the Guianas south to eastern Ecuador, western Brazil (south to Mato Grosso) and northern Bolivia (Beni).