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Cream-colored Woodpecker
Celeus flavus (Müller, PLS, 1776)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Cream-colored Woodpecker, Celeus flavus, is a woodpecker of South America, breeding in Amazonia and south-eastern Brazil. It is a resident bird of humid forest settings, especially where water is close by, and it also uses forest edges, swamp forest, várzea, gallery forest, mangroves, deciduous and open woodland, secondary growth, and cacao plantations. Its plumage is mainly yellowish, with a long crest and a black tail. Adult males show a bright red stripe on the face, while females lack this feature. The bill is yellowish, the iris red or red-brown, and the legs dark grey to green-grey.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: Amazonia and se Brazil
