Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Ochraceous Piculet (Picumnus limae) - HBW 7, p. 433
French: Picumne ocré
German: Ockerzwergspecht
Spanish: Carpinterito de Ceará
Taxonomy: Picumnus limae Snethlage, 1924, Serra de Maranguape, Ceará, Brazil.
Probably related to P. fulvescens, and sometimes regarded as conspecific. Form saturatus, described from Paraíba and previously listed as a race of present species, is now considered a junior synonym of P. fulvescens (see page 302). Monotypic.
Distribution: NC Ceará in NE Brazil.
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Male and female Locality Fortaleza, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Ciro Albano 29 December 2011 1 year ago 58 sec 4.5 -
A male in a tree extracting and eating a sizeable grub. Locality Mãe-da-Lua Reserve, Itapajé, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2008 4 years ago 31 sec 3.6 -
A male in a tree pecking on a thin branch. Locality Mãe-da-Lua Reserve, Itapajé, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 29 September 2008 4 years ago 24 sec 2.3
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A male perched
Locality Serra de Baturité, Ceará State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Arthur Grosset 18 October 2008 3 years ago 4
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Calls given while mobbing a Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl. Locality Serra de Baturité, Ceará State, Brazil
(Monotypic species)
Nick Athanas 8 January 2006 3 years ago 3
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