Cream-colored woodpecker

Celeus flavus

The cream-colored woodpecker is a species of woodpecker native to South America, from Colombia and the Guianas to Peru, Bolivia, and the eastern part of Brazil, including a southeast Brazil coastal strip.
Cream-coloured Woodpecker This distinctive woodpecker in the Orinoco Delta Celeus flavus,Cream-colored woodpecker,Orinoco Delta

Appearance

It is colored creamy yellow, except for the wingtips and tail, which are much darker. Males also have dark rings around their eyes. It has a large crest that is always raised.
Cream-colored woodpecker - couple, Inírida, Colombia Lovely species of woodpecker. Where Colombia's woodpeckers are a maze of confusion due to the numerous look-a-like species, this one is listed in the book as "unlike anything else". Here's the male and female individually before they found each other's company. Female: https://www.jungledragon.com/image/52635/cream-colored_woodpecker_-_female_inrida_colombia.html Male (red marking on cheek): https://www.jungledragon.com/image/52637/cream-colored_woodpecker_-_male_inrida_colombia.html Celeus flavus,Colombia,Cream-colored woodpecker,Fall,Geotagged,Guainía,Inírida,South America,World

Food

It eats mainly tree ants, although it does eat other insects and some fruits. It is not known how the cream-colored woodpecker nests, although it is believed that they nest in holes in trees. They do not migrate.

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Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionChordata
ClassAves
OrderPiciformes
FamilyPicidae
GenusCeleus
SpeciesC. flavus
Photographed in
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
Peru
Venezuela