Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) - HBW 7, p. 521
French: Pic mordoré
German: Fahlkopfspecht
Spanish: Carpintero Elegante
Other common names: Elegant Woodpecker, Pale-crowned Crested Woodpecker; Russet-crested/Rufous-crested Woodpecker (elegans group); Chestnut-crested Woodpecker (jumanus group); Yellow-crested Woodpecker (leotaudi)
Taxonomy: Picus elegans P. L. S. Müller, 1776, Cayenne.
Possibly forms a superspecies with C. castaneus, C. lugubris and C. flavescens. Dark-crowned, short-crested races jumanus and citreopygius sometimes considered to form a separate species. Birds from upper R Branco, in N Brazil, described as race approximans, but appear inseparable from nominate; proposed race saturatus (N Bolivia) indistinguishable from jumanus. Form “C. immaculatus”, known only from type specimen, supposedly from Panama, appears to be an aberrant form of nominate race of present species with erroneous localit.. View all taxonomy...
Possibly forms a superspecies with C. castaneus, C. lugubris and C. flavescens. Dark-crowned, short-crested races jumanus and citreopygius sometimes considered to form a separate species. Birds from upper R Branco, in N Brazil, described as race approximans, but appear inseparable from nominate; proposed race saturatus (N Bolivia) indistinguishable from jumanus. Form “C. immaculatus”, known only from type specimen, supposedly from Panama, appears to be an aberrant form of nominate race of present species with erroneous locality data. Six subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- hellmayri Berlepsch, 1908 - E Venezuela, Guyana and most of Surinam.
- leotaudi Hellmayr, 1906 - Trinidad.
- deltanus Phelps, Sr. & Phelps, Jr., 1950 - Delta Amacuro (NE Venezuela).
- hellmayri Berlepsch, 1908 - E Venezuela, Guyana and most of Surinam.
- leotaudi Hellmayr, 1906 - Trinidad.
- deltanus Phelps, Sr. & Phelps, Jr., 1950 - Delta Amacuro (NE Venezuela).
- elegans (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) - E Surinam, French Guiana, and N Brazil N of Amazon (Roraima to Amapá).
- jumanus (Spix, 1824) - E Colombia and S Venezuela (Amazonas, S Bolívar) through W & C Brazil (N of Amazon E to R Negro and S of Amazon E to Maranhão, and S to Rondônia and Mato Grosso) to N Bolivia.
- citreopygius P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1868 - E Ecuador and E Peru.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male feeding on fruit at a feeder Locality Arima Valley, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (ssp leotaudi)
Peter Nash 29 April 2005 6 years ago 22 sec 4.2 -
A female feeding on cecropia fruits Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp citreopygius)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 3 years ago 42 sec 3.4 -
A female in a cecropia tree and flying away Locality Sacha Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador (ssp citreopygius)
Josep del Hoyo 31 August 2007 3 years ago 16 sec 3.3 -
Adult looking out of breeding hole Locality JFK Highway, Suriname (ssp hellmayri)
Marc de Bont 10 February 2010 45 weeks ago 18 sec 3 -
A bird foraging on a trunk Locality Shiripuno Lodge, Pastaza Province, Ecuador (ssp citreopygius)
Keith Blomerley 28 November 2010 1 year ago 24 sec 2.7 -
Brief view of a bird in a tree and flying away. Locality Amazonia National Park, Pará State, Brazil (ssp jumanus)
Josep del Hoyo 18 August 2010 1 year ago 8 sec 2.4
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On a tree trunk.
Locality Yuturi Lodge, Orellana Province, Ecuador
Mark Gurney 1 January 2006 2 years ago 4 -
In the flooded forest near the Ariau lodge
Locality Ariau Resort, Iranduba, Amazonas, Brazil
Dave Rintoul 26 May 2011 35 weeks ago 3.5 -
Lateral view of bird on a branch
Locality Asa Wright Nature Centre, Arima Valley, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago (ssp leotaudi)
Mikko Pyhälä 12 January 2010 1 year ago 3.5 -
Male adult in hand
Locality Nouragues Reserve, French Guiana (ssp elegans)
maxcobigo 1 April 2009 2 years ago 3 -
A male on a tree.
Locality Mocoa, Putumayo Department, Colombia
mauricio rueda 31 March 2010 1 year ago 2.2
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