Ecuadorian Piculet Picumnus sclateri

Ecuadorian Piculet
Picumnus sclateri

Casupe, Cajamarca, Peru
October 2018

The Ecuadorian Piculet is distributed in western Ecuador and north-west Peru. See the distribution map at Birdlife International. It is found in dry deciduous forest and arid scrubby areas up to 1,800 metres.

It is brownish-grey above and heavily barred black and white below. The male has yellow tips to the forecrown feathers.

Dr Philip Sclater (1829-1913) was the founder and editor of the magazine Ibis and the editor of the journal of the British Ornithological Union.

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