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Rusty-necked Piculet
Picumnus fuscus Pelzeln, 1870
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Rusty-necked Piculet, Picumnus fuscus, is a woodpecker of south-western Amazonia, breeding in north-eastern Bolivia and west-central Brazil along the Rio Guaporé. It lives in seasonally flooded várzea forest on the border between Beni Department and Mato Grosso state. The species was described by Pelzeln in 1870 and is now treated as a distinct, monotypic bird. Adult males have a blackish crown with broad reddish-orange tips on the hindcrown feathers, while females have a plain black crown. The neck is rusty buff to buff-brown.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: ne Bolivia and wc Brazil
