Join for FREE It only takes a minute! A small (18cm, 7in.)
woodpecker with no barring or conspicuous marks; best
identification is overall dark, drab, brown plumage. Male has
dark red crown, lacking in female. Numerous and widespread in
foothills and subtropical forests in Argentina, Belize, Bolivia,
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela. Five subspecies
are recognized: fumigatus, oleagineus, sanguinolentus,
obscuratus, and reichenbachi. Forested and woodland areas of
foothills and mountains in parts of the range reaching near sea
level in Mexico. Forages on branches, rather than trunks,
tapping and probing methodically in live and dead wood for
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