Celeus spectabilis

Pedroza, Diego, Melo, Tomaz Nascimento de, Machado, Tatiana Lemos da Silva, Guimarães, David Pedroza, Lima, Jônatas M. & Guilherme, Edson, 2020, Birds of Humaitá Forest Reserve, Acre, Brazil: an important forest fragment in south-west Amazonia, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 140 (1), pp. 58-79 : 62

RUFOUS-HEADED WOODPECKER Celeus spectabilis

Bamboo forest specialist. Common in HFR, where invariably observed in bamboo. The territorial song and drumming is audible over long distances, and evidence of its feeding behaviour is often observed on bamboo stalks. A pair with two juveniles observed by TNM on 12 August 2014, in bamboo near the reserve headquarters ( Fig. 3A ) .

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Figure 3. Three endemic species from the Inambari center associated with patches of Guadua bamboo recorded in the Humaitá Forest Reserve, Acre, Brazil. (A) Rufous-headed Woodpecker Celeus spectabilis (David P. Guimarães). (B) Rufous Twistwing Cnipodectes superrufus (Tomaz N. de Melo). (C) Acre Tody-Tyrant Hemitriccus cohnhafti (Ricardo Plácido).