Melanerpes cruentatus
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The yellow-tufted woodpecker (Melanerpes cruentatus) is a species of woodpecker. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest.
The yellow-tufted woodpecker was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux from a specimen collected in Cayenne, French Guiana. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Picus cruentatus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The yellow-tufted woodpecker is now placed in the genus Melanerpes that was introduced by the English ornithologist William Swainson in 1832. The species is monotypic. The generic name combines the Ancient Greek melas meaning "black" with herpēs... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yasuní National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Sierra de la Macarena National Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 4 | Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 5 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 6 | Amacayacu National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Anavilhanas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 10 | Chingaza National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 11 | Podocarpus National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dallas World Aquarium | 🇺🇸 United States |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-tufted Woodpecker sighting in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on a given day, based on 206 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 12th most-seen of the 208 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and February
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-tufted Woodpecker in Santa Cruz de la Sierra on a given day, against about 30% in September, the lowest month. Those are among Santa Cruz de la Sierra's wettest months, with about 160 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-tufted 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 Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in our data
Santa Cruz de la Sierra is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow-tufted Woodpecker sightings: about 50% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-tufted Woodpecker is recorded against all the birds logged in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (206 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.
