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Black-bodied Woodpecker
Dryocopus schulzii (Cabanis, 1882)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Black-bodied Woodpecker, Dryocopus schulzii, is a woodpecker of south-western Bolivia and western Paraguay to north-central Argentina. It lives in the dry Gran Chaco, using woodland and savanna, together with the transition areas between them and wetter montane forest. It is a resident bird throughout its range. The species has a long pointed crest, and adult males show a red forehead and crest. Females differ in the face pattern, with a black malar stripe and a darker lower forehead, while the rest of the plumage is similar.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: sc Bolivia and w Paraguay to nc Argentina
