Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus)

Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus)

Puyehue National Park, Chile
November 2005

The Magellanic Woodpecker is distributed in the Andes and lowlands of southern Chile and in adjacent areas of south-west Argentina. It is found in Southern Beech Nothofagus and Cypress Cupressus forest particularly where there are stands of old trees (which look truly magnificent) and often where there is a bamboo understorey.

It is a large and striking woodpecker. The male has an entirely red head with a pointed crest while the female has a black head with dark red on the face and a very long black pointed crest. It has white on the underwings and on the tips of the tertials and secondaries which show up as a white strip on the back when at rest.

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