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Yellow-fronted Woodpecker
Melanerpes flavifrons (Vieillot, 1818)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Yellow-fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes flavifrons, is a woodpecker of south-eastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina. It is a resident bird of eastern South America, and its breeding range covers those same countries. It occurs in a variety of wooded and partly wooded places, including moist lowland forest, heavily altered former forest, gallery forest, secondary forest, palm groves, orchards, gardens and parkland. It is also found where scattered trees remain in cleared ground. The species is described as fairly common and has a wide range.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: se Brazil, e Paraguay and ne Argentina
