Blond-crested Woodpecker

Celeus flavescens (Gmelin, JF, 1788)

Blond-crested Woodpecker, Celeus flavescens, is a woodpecker of eastern and south-eastern South America, recorded in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It belongs to the family Picidae and was first described in 1788. The species is split into two subspecies, with one occurring farther north in east-central Brazil and the other ranging through south-eastern Brazil into eastern Paraguay and Misiones Province in Argentina. It lives in humid forest, forest edges, gallery forest, savanna, caatinga and orchards. It is a year-round resident, and breeds in eastern Brazil from April to June and in Argentina from October to November.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae — Woodpeckers

Breeding range

South America: e, se