| Cream-colored Woodpecker Celeus flavus |
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Brazil and Ecuador The Cream-colored Woodpecker is mainly sulphur yellow to cream coloured with a black tail and rufous on the wings but there is a wide variation in this colouring which does not necessarily indicate a particular sub-species. The male has a red moustachial stripe which is lacking in the female. |
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It is distributed in the Amazon and Orinoco Basins as well as the Guyanas and with a disjunct population in eastern Brazil. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in várzea and swamp forests as well as areas such as cocoa plantations. It feeds on fruit and seeds as well as on ants and termites. | |||
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