Checkered Woodpecker
picoides mixtus
Picidae,Picinae · Woodpeckers
- Disc 2 · 2001 not listed
- Disc 3 · 2006 listed
- Disc 1 · 2011 listed
The account
Description
14 cm. Long straight bill.
The male has a forehead and a blackish-brown crown, streaked white. The sides of the nape red or orange red. Ear coverts dark brown. Lower lores and supercilium white streaked brown. Hindneck and upper parts blackish brown, barred whitish. Wings deep brown, barred white. Underparts white, tinged pale yellow or buff with dark brown streaks especially on breast and flanks. Crissum white with brown streaks. Black tail barred white.
The female is without red on head.
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Male Disc 3 · 2006 -
Female Disc 3 · 2006
Each plate is labelled with the disc's own caption.
The account, continued
Voice
Call like 'ti tiwetwetwetwetwet', also has a Downy Woodpecker-like 'tititititititi'.
Behavior
Forages in pairs low in trees and bushes; hammers on twigs, but usually probes and gleans.
Breeding
September-November.
Habitat and status
Rare in dry open woodland, savannahs and bush country.
Distribution
Extralimital. Occurs inland in Estado São Paulo and Minas Gerais. Might appear closer to the coast at times. Up to 600 meters.
Decoded from the disc's own bytes. Each part is shown under the heading the disc files it under, and the wording, spelling and punctuation are the author's.
Vocalizations
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Call, Cerro do Cipo, MG, November 2002.
Recording files on the disc
- 8922.mp3 Call, Cerro do Cipo, MG, November 2002.
Across the three discs
The work was published on three discs — Disc 2 in 2001, Disc 3 in 2006 and Disc 1 in 2011. Where they differ, that is a difference between historical releases, and it is never merged away. The 2011 disc is not treated as correcting the earlier ones.
Which discs list this bird
- Disc 2 · 2001 — not in this disc's bird list
- Disc 3 · 2006 — in this disc's bird list
- Disc 1 · 2011 — in this disc's bird list
How that was established
- Disc 3 · 2006
aux_nonzero- Disc 1 · 2011
aux_nonzero
The disc's own record fields that place the bird on its list: a non-empty entry in the species table, and the byte that marks it as selected on a local checklist.
The account in the Disc 1 · 2011 revision
The 2011 Disc 1 revision carries this account text unchanged from the Disc 3 release.
The work's own taxonomy
The discs carried three parallel name schemes. All three are shown as recovered; none is a modern taxonomy and none has been updated.
| Scheme | Scientific name | English name | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORLD | picoides mixtus | Checkered Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| CLEMENTS | picoides mixtus | Checkered Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
| AOU_HM | picoides mixtus | Checkered Woodpecker | Picidae,Picinae |
Source details
- Identifier on this site
- seb_species_0045
- Account identifier
- seb_account_0045
- Account number on the disc
- 45
- Source edition
- CD03 / 2006 package
- Original taxonomy scheme
- WORLD
- Structure status
- heuristic; decoded_account_text and segment JSON remain authoritative