piculet

The breeding season of the Antillean Piculet is March to July.

The Black-dotted Piculet resembles other members of the genus Picumnus.

The Antillean Piculet feeds on insects, with ants and beetles forming a large part of the diet.

The Spotted Piculet (Picumnus pygmaeus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

Etymologically, piculet is as a double diminutive of the Latin picus 'woodpecker', see also Picus.

Bar-breasted Piculet at The Internet Bird Collection.

Genus: Verreauxia - African Piculet (sometimes included in Sasia)

African Piculet (Sasia africana)

White-browed Piculet (Sasia ochracea)

Birds such as the aforementioned piculet are specialized for gleaning the bark of trees, as are nuthatches, woodcreepers, and treecreepers.

Speckled Piculet, Picumnus innominatus (sometimes Vivia)

The taxonomy is difficult, as it hybridizes widely with numerous other piculets such as the Varzea, Ochre-collared and White-wedged Piculet.

This requires strong legs and feet on the part of the nuthatch and piculet, while birds that face upwards tend to have stiff tail feathers to prop them up.

Most notably, the relationship of the picine genera has been largely clarified, and it was determined that the Antillean Piculet is a surviving offshoot of proto-woodpeckers.

The Varzea Piculet lives along the Amazon River in a wildlife corridor, the forest called Várzea forest, a freshwater swamp forest.

Rare individuals with scaly throats and pale buffy (rather than yellow) underparts resemble the Scaled Piculet, which can be distinguished by its scaly lower underparts.

Of special interest are the Grayish Piculet, Apical Flycatcher, Bar-crested Antshrike and the Scrub Tanager.

The Greyish Piculet is part of a superspecies with the Olivaceous Piculet, and may even be conspecific, or the same species.

The woodpeckers and allies include honeyguides, African barbets, African Piculet, Ground Woodpecker, Dendropicos and Campethera.

The Bar-breasted Piculet is generally found in humid forests, including terra firme and várzea, and are generally seen within such areas in the edges, second growth, and clearings.

This sanctuary is a favorite nesting place for the speckled piculet, Malabar crested lark, and some species of Himalayan birds such as the Indian blue robin during the winter months.

The Picumninae piculets have a pantropical distribution, with species in Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Neotropics, with South America holding the majority of piculet species.

The second piculet subfamily, Nesoctitinae, has a single species, the Antillean Piculet, which is restricted to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.

The Antillean Piculet occupies a number of different habitats within Hispaniola, including humid and dry Pinus and broadleaf forests, as well as semi-arid scrubland and thorn-forest.

The modern subfamilies appear to be rather young by comparison; until the mid-Miocene (10-15 mya), all picids seem to have been small or mid-sized birds similar to a mixture between a piculet and a wryneck.