[order] PICIFORMES | [family] Picidae | [latin] Piculus flavigula | [UK] Yellow-throated Woodpecker | [FR] Pic a gorge jaune | [DE] Gelbkehl-Specht | [ES] Carpintero Gorgigualdo | [NL] Geelkeelspecht
Subspecies
| Genus | Species | subspecies | Breeding Range | Breeding Range 2 | Non Breeding Range |
| Piculus | flavigula | SA | Amazonia, se Brazil | ||
| Piculus | flavigula | erythropis | e and se Brazil | ||
| Piculus | flavigula | flavigula | e Colombia and s Venezuela through the Guianas, n Brazil | ||
| Piculus | flavigula | magnus | ne Ecuador and se Colombia to n Bolivia, w Brazil |
Physical charateristics
Male has a yellow showing red all over the crown and with a red malar stripe. The female shows red only on the nape. The upperparts are yellowish-green and underparts white with distinctive black scales. The male of the subspecies found in eastern Brazil, P. f. erythropis has an entirely red throat.
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Range
South America : Amazonia, Southeast Brazil
Habitat
It is found in forest and forest edges along riversides also drier forest like the caatinga forest in eastern Brazil.
Reproduction
Excavates a hole in stub not too high up, less than 15 meter. No further data.
Feeding habits
Diet consists mainly of ants which are gleaned and probed from trees. Also flakes of pies of bark. Found in subcanopy to treetops.
Conservation
This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Migration
Sedentary throughout range.
Distribution map
