Bar-breasted Piculet Picumnus aurifrons Scientific name definitions
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | picotet barrat |
Czech | datlíček zlatočelý |
Dutch | Goudkapdwergspecht |
English | Bar-breasted Piculet |
English (United States) | Bar-breasted Piculet |
French | Picumne barré |
French (France) | Picumne barré |
German | Goldstirn-Zwergspecht |
Japanese | キンビタイヒメキツツキ |
Norwegian | amazonpikulett |
Polish | dzięciolnik złotoczelny |
Portuguese (Brazil) | picapauzinho-dourado |
Portuguese (Portugal) | Pica-pau-anão-dourado |
Russian | Золотолобый дятелок |
Serbian | Zlatočela žunica |
Slovak | ďatlíček zlatočelý |
Spanish | Carpinterito del Amazonas |
Spanish (Peru) | Carpinterito de Pecho Barrado |
Spanish (Spain) | Carpinterito del Amazonas |
Swedish | guldpannad dvärgspett |
Turkish | Amazon Kakancığı |
Ukrainian | Добаш золотолобий |
Picumnus aurifrons Pelzeln, 1870
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
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Introduction
Bar-breasted Piculets inhabit humid forests, including terra firme and várzea , and prefer edges, second growth, and clearings. These yellowish green piculets have horizontal barring on the chest and vertical streaking on the belly. Several different subspecies exist throughout their large range. Unfortunately, very little is known about their life history and basic ecology.
Field Identification
7·5 cm; 8–10 g, male 9·2 g, female 8·6 g. Male has top of head black, yellow streaks mostly on forehead, remainder spotted white ; buff lores, grey-brown cheeks and ear-coverts, whitish line behind eye; olive-green upperparts , somewhat browner wing-coverts and tertials with paler greenish edgings; brownish-black primaries and secondaries, edged greenish-yellow; black uppertail, central feather pair with yellowish-white inner webs, outer 2 pairs with whitish subterminal patch; whitish chin and throat weakly barred dark at sides; remaining underparts pale yellowish-white, breast barred brown, breast sides and upper belly with arrowhead-shaped streaks, belly and flanks broadly streaked brown; underwing-coverts yellowish; bill short, grey to blue-grey; iris brown, orbital skin grey; legs greyish. Differs from similar P. lafresnayi in yellow forehead streaks, unbarred back, streaked belly. Female has entire forehead and crown spotted white. Juvenile duller brown, crown browner and streaked (not spotted), markings below less heavy, streaks extending up to lower breast. Race purusianus is darker above, breast more heavily barred black; flavifrons similar but faintly barred above, breast barring less heavy, belly strongly spotted; <em>wallacii</em> is obscurely barred above, paler below, breast bars fainter, belly more spotted; transfasciatus has heavily barred upperparts, strongly barred breast; borbae has red forehead streaks, yellower tertial edges, yellower belly, stronger blacker breast bars; juruanus also has reddish-orange forehead streaks, but far weaker breast barring.
Systematics History
Editor's Note: This article requires further editing work to merge existing content into the appropriate Subspecies sections. Please bear with us while this update takes place.
May be more closely related to P. fuscus. Races juruanus and borbae, with red forehead streaks, formerly treated as forming a separate species (P. borbae), although from a biogeographical standpoint such treatment hardly seems likely. Seven subspecies currently recognized.Subspecies
Picumnus aurifrons aurifrons Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons aurifrons Pelzeln, 1870
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
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Picumnus aurifrons transfasciatus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons transfasciatus Hellmayr & Gyldenstolpe, 1937
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- transfasciatus
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Picumnus aurifrons borbae Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons borbae Pelzeln, 1870
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- borbae
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Picumnus aurifrons wallacii Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons wallacii Hargitt, 1889
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- wallaceana / wallaceanus / wallacei / wallaciana / wallacii
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Picumnus aurifrons purusianus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons purusianus Todd, 1946
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- purusensis / purusiana / purusianus
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Picumnus aurifrons flavifrons Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons flavifrons Hargitt, 1889
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- flavifrons
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Picumnus aurifrons juruanus Scientific name definitions
Distribution
Picumnus aurifrons juruanus Gyldenstolpe, 1941
Definitions
- PICUMNUS
- picumnus
- aurifrons
- juruana / juruanum / juruanus
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Distribution
Editor's Note: Additional distribution information for this taxon can be found in the 'Subspecies' article above. In the future we will develop a range-wide distribution article.
Habitat
Inhabits humid tropical terra firme forest, and also seasonally inundated várzea forest; found mainly at edges and in clearings, and also in second growth. Recorded from lowlands up to 1100 m.
Movement
Apparently resident.
Diet and Foraging
Virtually unknown; presumably insects. Recorded taking insect larvae . Seems to prefer the upper canopy for foraging.
Sounds and Vocal Behavior
Call “tsirrrit-tsit-tsit” , resembling that of hummingbird (Trochilidae).
Breeding
Season presumably Jun–Nov. Recorded making nest in Apr and feeding young in Oct. No other information.
Conservation Status
Not globally threatened. Very poorly known. Appears to be at best uncommon, but possibly overlooked. Occurs in Manu National Park and Tambopata Reserve, both in Peru.