Family Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Least Concern
Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker (Piculus callopterus)
Taxonomy
French: Pic bridé German: Panamaspecht Spanish: Carpintero panameño
Taxonomy:
Chloronerpes callopterus
Lawrence
, 1862,Lion Hill, Canal Zone, Panama
.Distribution:
WC to E Panama: Veraguas, and Caribbean slope of Canal Zone to Darién.
Descriptive notes
c. 17 cm. Male has red forehead to hindneck, olive lores and side of head, buffy-white stripe from lores to lower edge of ear-coverts, broad red malar band back to neck... read more
Voice
Main call, given by both male and female, is a nasal bi-syllabic note "nyeeeh-wheet... read more
Habitat
Humid forest and forest borders in foothills on Caribbean slope, between 300 m and 900 m.
Food and feeding
Small ants are only food items on record. Usually found singly or in pairs, also with mixed-species flocks. Forages on lower or middle... read more
Breeding
A nest found in 2013 at Chagres National Park was in hole in a dead Cecropia trunk c. 3·4 m high; eggs... read more
Movements
Presumed resident.
Status and conservation
Not globally threatened (Least Concern). Restricted-range species: present in Central American Caribbean Slope EBA and Darién Lowlands EBA. Uncommon and local. Poorly... read more
Thought to be closely related to P. simplex, P. leucolaemus and P. litae, and all four often treated as conspecific. Monotypic.