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Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
Melanerpes cruentatus (Boddaert, 1783)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker, Melanerpes cruentatus, is a woodpecker of Amazonia in South America, where it breeds across the northern part of the continent. It is a bird of humid forest, including both primary and secondary growth, and it also uses woodland edges and areas left after fire with scattered standing trees. The species is found from low ground to 1,200 m, and in Ecuador it occurs even higher. It was named by Boddaert in 1783. It belongs to the Picidae family in the order Piciformes.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- South America: Amazonia
