Order: Piciformes | Family: Picidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Male | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Female | Loc. Madre de Dios, Peru
Identification & Behavior: ~26 cm (10.1 in). The Cream-colored Woodpecker is buff-yellow with brown wings. The male has a red malar stripe. The color pattern of this woodpecker is unmistakable. It favors varzea forests where it forages alone or in pairs at mid-story.
Status: The Cream-colored Woodpecker is fairly common in varzea forest in Amazonia where it is known to range up to 600 m along the foothill of the Andes. It also occurs in Co, Ec, Br, and Bo.
Name in Spanish: Carpintero Crema.
Sub-species: Cream-colored Woodpecker (Celeus flavus flavus), Statius Müller 1776.
Meaning of Name: Celeus: Gr. keleus= green woodpecker. flavus: L. yellow, yellow gold, gold.
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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.