Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Cusco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Amazonas, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Eastern Andes, Ecuador
Status: The Bar-bellied Woodpecker is uncommon in montane forest and scrub of the east slope of the Andes where it ranges at elevations ranging between 2400-3500 m. It also occurs in Co, Ec, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Carpintero de Vientre Barrado.
Sub-species: Bar-bellied Woodpecker (Veniliornis nigriceps equifasciatus), Chapman 1912. Extreme N Andes of Peru.
(V. n. pectoralis), Berlepsch and Stolzmann 1902. Most of the Andes of Peru.
(V. n. nigriceps), d’Orbigny 1840.Extreme southern Peru.
Meaning of Name: Veniliornis: Related to the genus Venilia (Bonaparte, 1850); and ornis= bird. nigriceps: L. nigri=niger, black and ceps=head.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 01/01/2015.