Campo Flickers are typically seen surveying the cerrado from a suitable perch on top of a tree. They normally feed on ants or termites on the ground so, at least in behaviour, it is similar to the Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) of Europe.
It is a species that takes advantage of deforestation where termites invade low-grade and overgrazed pasturesand is found in eastern and central Brazil and into Bolivia and Paraguay.
There is an illustration in Sick, Plate 25.
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