Celeus lugubris
Silhouette: Pepe Reigada · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
The pale-crested woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. Some authors have treated C. l. kerri as a separate species and others have treated the pale-crested and the blond-crested woodpecker (C. flavescens) as conspecific.
This article follows the IOC two-subspecies model. The pale-crested woodpecker is about 23 to 24 cm (9.1 to 9.4 in) long. Males of both subspecies have a wide bright red malar area and cheek (and sometimes around the eye); females are barred or scaly brown there instead. In the nominate subspecies, adults of both sexes have a pale... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-crested Woodpecker sighting in Asuncion on a given day, based on 63 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 116th most-seen of the 224 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February, June, August, October and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-crested Woodpecker in Asuncion on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–May, July, September and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale-crested Woodpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Asuncion, in our data
Asuncion is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Pale-crested Woodpecker sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Pale-crested Woodpecker that you can see in Asuncion (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Campo Flicker (about 40%), White-barred Piculet (about 20%) and Green-barred Woodpecker (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale-crested Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Asuncion (63 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
