Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC427144]
by Bobby Wilcox from \u00c1rea 4 - Consultoria Terracal, Guadalupe-PI, Piau\u00ed, Brazil (canto)
Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC822537]
by rudy gelis from Bosque de los Carpinteros - San Jorge\/Morelia, Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (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.