Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Yellow-throated Woodpecker (Piculus flavigula) - HBW 7, p. 505
French: Pic à gorge jaune
German: Gelbkehlspecht
Spanish: Carpintero Gorgigualdo
Taxonomy: Picus flavigula Boddaert, 1783, Cayenne.
E race erythropis, with distinctive plumage and different habitat preferences, possibly a separate species. Race magnus intergrades with nominate in NE Brazil. Birds from SW Colombia, previously thought to represent an undescribed race of present species, have now been reidentified as P.litae. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- flavigula (Boddaert, 1783) - Extreme E Colombia, S Venezuela and the Guianas, S to N Amazonia.
- magnus (Cherrie & Reichenberger, 1921) - SE Colombia, NE Ecuador and Amazonian Brazil S to E Peru, NE Bolivia and Mato Grosso.
- erythropis (Vieillot, 1818) - E Brazil in Pernambuco and from Bahia to São Paulo.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male building a nest hole and watching the surroundings Locality Shiripuno River, Pastaza Province, Ecuador (ssp magnus)
Josep del Hoyo 26 August 2007 4 years ago 49 sec 4.9 -
A close-up of a male building a nest hole and watching the surroundings Locality Shiripuno River, Pastaza Province, Ecuador (ssp magnus)
Josep del Hoyo 26 August 2007 4 years ago 37 sec 4.6 -
A male building a nest hole in a trunk, seen from different angles Locality Shiripuno River, Pastaza Province, Ecuador (ssp magnus)
Josep del Hoyo 26 August 2007 4 years ago 50 sec 4.6 -
A female pecking in a hole. Locality Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 17 sec 4.4 -
A male building a nest hole in a trunk Locality Shiripuno River, Pastaza Province, Ecuador (ssp magnus)
Josep del Hoyo 26 August 2007 4 years ago 1 min 4.3 -
A female foraging in a trunk while descending. Locality Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 19 sec 4
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an adult male
Locality Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
Anselmo d Affonseca 23 weeks ago 4.5 -
An adult male, back view, in the canopy at 35 m high
Locality Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
Anselmo d Affonseca 23 weeks ago 4.3 -
A male in a tree.
Locality Engenho Cachoeira Linda, Barreiros, Pernambuco State, Brazil (ssp erythropis)
Josep del Hoyo 15 October 2008 3 years ago 3.7 -
A female perched on a trunk.
Locality Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 30 July 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 3 -
Feeding in the tree.
Locality Tapiraí, São Paulo State, Brazil
douglasbete 29 March 2011 1 year ago 2.2
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Scream call. Locality Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso State, Brazil
(ssp magnus)
Scott Olmstead 22 June 2006 2 years ago 4 -
The typical, hoarse call of this species, given twice by a male. Locality Cuieiras Biological Reserve, Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
(ssp magnus)
Josep del Hoyo 31 July 2011 34 weeks ago 3.3
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