Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) - HBW 7, p. 521
French: Pic à tête pâle
German: Blassschopfspecht
Spanish: Carpintero Lúgubre
Taxonomy: Celeopicus lugubris Malherbe, 1851, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Possibly forms a superspecies with C. castaneus, C. elegans and C. flavescens. Sometimes treated as conspecific with last of these. Has apparently hybridized, rarely, with C. elegans. Proposed race roosevelti (W Mato Grosso) regarded as synonymous with nominate. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- lugubris (Malherbe, 1851) - E Bolivia and WC Brazil (W Mato Grosso).
- kerri Hargitt, 1891 - Paraguay (except extreme E) and WC Brazil (S Mato Grosso) to NE Argentina (E Formosa, Corrientes).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A female feeding on the ground Locality Curicaca Wildlife Refuge, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp lugubris)
Yaiza Aragón 17 March 2008 5 years ago 27 sec 4.8 -
A close-up of a male in slow motion Locality Curicaca Wildlife Refuge, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp lugubris)
Yaiza Aragón 17 March 2008 5 years ago 14 sec 4.7 -
A female on a pole, drumming once and flying away Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (ssp lugubris)
Josep del Hoyo 6 September 2005 6 years ago 18 sec 4.5 -
A female on a pole, drumming repeatedly Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (ssp lugubris)
Josep del Hoyo 6 September 2005 6 years ago 38 sec 4.1 -
A female looking around on a trunk Locality Curicaca Wildlife Refuge, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil (ssp lugubris)
Yaiza Aragón 17 March 2008 5 years ago 16 sec 3.7
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Bird climbing up a trunk
Locality Santa Cruz Botanical Garden, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia
Dubi Shapiro 2 November 2012 18 weeks ago 4.6 -
Pale-crested Woodpecker (female)
Locality Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
Stephen John Jones 17 August 2011 1 year ago 4.3 -
Male
Locality Chaco National Park, Chaco Province, Argentina (ssp kerri)
Horacio Luna 28 October 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A bird on the tree
Locality Passo do Lontra, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil
Tadeusz Stawarczyk 10 August 2010 1 year ago 3.8 -
Female feeding in a tree of an islet of chaco forest
Locality Estancia San Antonio, El Rabon, Santa Fe Province, Argentina (ssp kerri)
Horacio Luna 11 October 2009 3 years ago 3.8 -
A female perched on top of a trunk.
Locality Trinidad, Beni Department, Bolivia (ssp lugubris)
Joe Tobias 5 September 2005 16 weeks ago 3.7
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A single song. Locality Pixaim River, Pantanal, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
(ssp lugubris)
Bradley Davis 9 September 2008 3 years ago 3
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