Celeus flavescens
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The blond-crested woodpecker (Celeus flavescens) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. The blond-crested woodpecker was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the other woodpeckers in the genus Picus and coined the binomial name Picus flavescens. The specific epithet flavescens is Latin meaning "golden-yellowish". Gmelin based his description on the "yellow-crested woodpecker" from Brazil that had been described and illustrated in 1776 by the English naturalist Peter Brown. Thomas Pennant had provided Brown with a drawing of the bird. The blond-crested woodpecker is now one of 13 species placed in the genus Celeus that was introduced in 1831 by Friedrich Boie.
What is now the ochre-backed woodpecker (C. ochraceus) was previously included as a third subspecies. The blond-crested woodpecker is about 27 to 30 cm (11... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Itatiaia National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque das Aves | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Blond-crested Woodpecker sighting in Porto Alegre on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 145th most-seen of the 159 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Blond-crested Woodpecker in Porto Alegre on a given day, against under 5% in July to May, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blond-crested Woodpecker sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Blond-crested Woodpecker sightings, Porto Alegre ranks 6th at under 5%. The best odds are in São Paulo (Brazil, about 30%), Vitória (Brazil, about 20%) and Niterói (Brazil, about 20%).
Same family: Picidae
The closest relatives of the Blond-crested Woodpecker that you can see in Porto Alegre (family Picidae, Woodpeckers) are Green-barred Woodpecker (about 20%) and Campo Flicker (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blond-crested Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Porto Alegre (7 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.
