Yellow-throated Woodpecker (Piculus flavigula)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
18 - 20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 700 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (13)...)

Yellow-throated Woodpecker (Piculus flavigula) [XC505347]
by Caio Brito from ZF2 km 34, 80km north of Manaus, Brazil (call)

Yellow-throated Woodpecker (Piculus flavigula) [XC781121]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Sinop, Mato Grosso, Rio azul, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
Eastern subspecies erythropis, with distinctive plumage and different habitat preferences, possibly a separate species. Subspecies magnus intergrades with nominate in north-eastern Brazil. Birds from south-western Colombia, previously thought to represent an undescribed subspecies of present species, have now been reidentified as Lita Woodpecker (Piculus litae).

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

flavigula (Boddaert, 1783) - Extreme eastern Colombia, southern Venezuela and the Guianas, south to northern Amazonia.
magnus (Cherrie & Reichenberger, 1921) - South-eastern Colombia, north-eastern Ecuador and Amazonian Brazil south to eastern Peru, north-eastern Bolivia and Mato Grosso.
erythropis (Vieillot, 1818) - Eastern Brazil in Pernambuco and from Bahia to S�o Paulo.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-throated Woodpecker (Piculus flavigula) - 10 files

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