Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC827465]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from San Jose de Payamino (near San Jos\u00e9 de Payamino), Cant\u00f3n de Loreto, Orellana, Ecuador (drumming)
Crimson-crested Woodpecker (Campephilus melanoleucos) [XC614556]
by Mauricio Cuellar Ramirez (@Birding.travel) from Ca\u00f1o Lagunilla - Morelia, Caquet\u00e1, Colombia (call, song)
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.