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'''Common Name:''' Rufous-headed Woodpecker

'''Scientific Name:''' Celeus spectabilis

'''Size:''' 11½  inches (29 cm)

'''Habitat:''' South America; western Amazon in northern Bolivia, far south-western Brazil (Acre only), eastern Ecuador, and eastern Peru. It inhabits humid tropical forest, especially along rivers and on river islands, in lowland areas up to 300 meters.

'''Status:''' Least Concern. '''Global population:''' Unknown.

'''Diet:''' Insects.

'''Nesting:''' The rufous-headed woodpecker is a bamboo specialist. The nest of the woodpecker, a hole placed 2 - 4  m high in a soft-wooded dead tree, preferably in  an area of almost pure bamboo.

'''Cool Facts:''' Rufous-headed Woodpecker was formerly included Kaempfer's Woodpecker as a subspecies. It’s call is a muffled, mewing chuckle “wwr HEE hrr-hrr-hrr-hr”


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