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Blond-crested Woodpecker
The Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens) is a species of bird in the Picidae family, the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks.
It is found in Brazil, southeastern Paraguay, and extreme northeastern Argentina. A small disjunct population occurs at the Amazon River mouth and upstream, including the southern part of Ilha de Marajo.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.
Distribution
Range: Cerrado and Caatinga
In eastern and southeastern South America, the Blond-crested Woodpecker ranges in eastern and central portions of the cerrado; it is also in most of the caatinga. A small range of the bird, (disjunct), occurs at the mouth of the Amazon River and upstream for 800 km in the Amazon Basin; the range also covers the southern parts of Marajo Island.
Source
BirdLife International 2004. Celeus flavescens. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007.
External links
Blond-crested Woodpecker videos on the Internet Bird Collection
Blond-crested Woodpecker photo galley VIREO Photo-High Res
Photo-High Res; Article & synopsis arthurgrosset–"South American Birds"
Photo, vocalizations from "Avifauna of the Interior of Ceara, Brasil"
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