Celeus ochraceus
Silhouette: Pepe Reigada · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
The ochre-backed woodpecker (Celeus ochraceus) is a species of bird in subfamily Picinae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is endemic to Brazil. The ochre-backed woodpecker was long treated as a subspecies of the blond-crested woodpecker (C. flavescens), but following a 2011 publication, regional and worldwide taxonomic systems gradually moved to accept it as a full species. The ochre-backed woodpecker is monotypic.
The ochre-backed woodpecker is about 25 to 27 cm (9.8 to 11 in) long. Males have a wide dull red malar area and cheek; females have a streaky black malar instead of red. Adults of both sexes have a buffy or cinnamon-tinged ochre head including the long pointed crest, chin, throat, and neck. Their upperparts are cinnamon-buff to orange-ochre with black markings that vary in shape from round to heart-like. Their flight feathers are mostly black; the secondaries have wide cinnamon-buff bars and the tertials are cinnamon-buff with black bars and tips. Their tail feathers are black with pale buffish edges or bars on the outermost pair. Their underparts are sooty, often with buff-cinnamon feather edges, and the rear flanks and undertail coverts... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ochre-backed Woodpecker sighting in Fortaleza on a given day, based on 80 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 47th most-seen of the 129 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Ochre-backed Woodpecker in Fortaleza on a given day, against about 10% in January–February, April and September, the lowest months. That is one of Fortaleza's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 240 mm in April.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ochre-backed Woodpecker sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Fortaleza, in our data
Fortaleza is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ochre-backed Woodpecker sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Ochre-backed Woodpecker that you can see in Fortaleza (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Green-barred Woodpecker (about 30%), Ochraceous Piculet (about 30%) and Little Woodpecker (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ochre-backed Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Fortaleza (80 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.
