Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus) [XC87447]
by Jeremy Minns from Anavilhanas Archipelago, Brazil (song)
Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus) [XC403398]
by Brice de la Croix from Montsin\u00e9ry, sentier du bagne des Annamites, French Guiana (tapping)
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).