sentences:  Some sites are threatened by the construction of a new section of the Belém-Brasília Highway, and habitat loss is likely to be the main threat.However, due to the taxonomic confusion with the rufous-headed woodpecker, it has only recently been evaluated by BirdLife International, where it has been given a status of Critically Endangered for the 2007 Red List.Based on the additional sites discovered since then, it has been suggested that Endangered may be more appropriate.