BLOND-CRESTED WOODPECKER Celeus flavescens
A crazy-looking woodpecker with a striking blonde hair-do that earns him the nickname "Billy Idol" amongst local birders. This is the humid forest representative of a superspecies that includes another "Billy Idol", the Pale-crested Woodpecker, its geographic replacement in the Chaco and dry forests of the northern Orient. It is a surprisingly tame species that is unconcerned by the close approach of the viewer, concentrating instead on the more important task of hammering wood!
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FIGURE 1 - (FPAVE2533PH) Adult male, Mbaracayú Forest Reserve, Departamento Canindeyú (Paul Smith September 2006).
FIGURE 2 - (FPAVE2534PH) Adult male, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Laura Tensen February 2008).
FIGURE 3 - (FPAVE2535PH) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu May 2008).
FIGURE 4 - (FPAVE2536PH) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Sylvia Qu June 2008).
FIGURE 5 - (FPAVE3679PH) Male at nest, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith October 2012).
VIDEO A - (FPAVE2537VI) Same individual as (FPAVE2533PH) with Bare-throated Bellbird Procnias nudicollis singing in background (Paul Smith September 2006).
VIDEO B - (FPAVE2538VI) Adult female, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael with Chopi Blackbird Gnorimopsar chopi singing in background (Paul Smith December 2006).
VIDEO C - (FPAVE3680VI) Male at nest, PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith October 2012).
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Celeus flavescens
1 (FPAVE2539RE) Calls, recorded Puerto Bertoni, Departamento Alto Paraná (Myriam Velázquez September 2000).
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