Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans)

Other Names (World)
Chestnut Woodpecker, Elegant Woodpecker, Pale-crowned Crested Woodpecker, Russet-crested Woodpecker (elegans group), Rufous-crested Woodpecker (elegans group), Chestnut-crested Woodpecker (jumanus group), Yellow-crested Woodpecker (leotaudi)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
26 - 32 cm

First Described (Guide)
(M�ller, 1776)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,100 m.

Range (Guide)

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

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (45)...)

Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) [XC781215]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Sinop, Cascalheiras - Mato Grosso, Brazil (drumming)

Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) [XC479696]
by Brice de la Croix from Regina, Rivi\u00e8re de la Manar\u00e9, French Guiana (song)

Subspecies
Possibly forms a superspecies with Chestnut-colored Woodpecker (Celeus castaneus), Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) and Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens). Dark-crowned, short-crested subspecies jumanus and citreopygius sometimes considered to form a separate species. Birds from upper R Branco, in northern Brazil, described as subspecies approximans, but appear inseparable from nominate.

Proposed subspecies saturatus (northern Bolivia) indistinguishable from jumanus. Form "Celeus immaculatus", known only from type specimen, supposedly from Panama, appears to be an aberrant form of nominate subspecies of present species with erroneous locality data.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

hellmayri von Berlepsch, 1908 - Eastern Venezuela, Guyana and most of Surinam.
leotaudi Hellmayr, 1906 - Trinidad.
deltanus Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1950 - Delta Amacuro (north-eastern Venezuela).
elegans (M�ller, 1776) - Eastern Surinam, French Guiana, and northern Brazil north of Amazon (Roraima to Amap�).
jumanus (von Spix, 1824) - Eastern Colombia and southern Venezuela (Amazonas, southern Bol��var) through western and central Brazil (north of Amazon east to R Negro and south of Amazon east to Maranh�o, and south to Rond�nia and Mato Grosso) to northern Bolivia.
citreopygius Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1867 - Eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) - 10 files

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