Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC536673]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from Purus River, Boca do Acre, State of Amazonas, Brazil (song)
Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC732157]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Lagunillas (near Los Huesos), Cordillera, Departamento de Santa Cruz, Bolivia (drumming)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis) and Guayaquil Woodpecker (Campephilus gayaquilensis). Possibly conspecific with Guayaquil Woodpecker (Campephilus gayaquilensis). Subspecies intergrade quite extensively; birds from southern half of range formerly grouped together as subspecies albirostris.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
malherbii Gray, GR, 1845 - Western Panama east to northern and central Colombia.
melanoleucos (Gmelin, 1788) - East of Andes, from Colombia east to Trinidad and north-eastern Brazil, south to Bolivia, Paraguay, northern and north-eastern Argentina and Mato Grosso.
cearae (Cory, 1915) - Eastern and southern Brazil.