Olivaceous Piculet
Picumnus olivaceus

Olivaceous Piculet, Chontal, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image Pichincha, Ecuador
November 2019

The Olivaceous Piculet is the piculet of Central America but it is also found in Colombia, the extreme west of Venezuela, western Ecuador and the extreme north-west of Peru. See the distribution map at xeno-canto. In Ecuador it is found in woodland and shrubby clearings up to about 900 metres.

Olivaceous Piculet, Chontal, Pichincha, Ecuador, November 2019 - click for larger image It is olive above and plain brownish-olive below. The head is black with orange and white dots in the male and only white dots in the female.