Adult: Small woodpecker with thin neck, slender body and short tail. Males have bright red crown and nape. Dusky olive face, cheek, throat and breast. Pale white mustache. Pale scallops in the middle of the breast. Dusky olive and pale barring on belly, sides, flanks and undertail coverts. Bronze-olive back, wings and rump. Black tail. Females are identical to males except have olive crown. Gray legs, black beak and blue eyes. Juvenile: Like adult male except red on the crown is scraggly and not as red. Flight: Rounded wings and pointed tail. A steady, direct flight with periods where the wings are pulled to the sides. Habitat: Humid forests, forest borders, montane forests and foothills. Range: Endemic to mountains of eastern Panama. Voice: A squeaky nayyeehh-wheeet. Pecking is a short series of evenly spaced pecks that increases in speed towards the end. Size: 6 to 7 inches long. Subspecies: Monotypic. Similar Species: Rufous-winged Woodpecker doesn’t really overlap ranges. It has red on the face and cheek. More patterning on breast and rufous wing edge with faint black bars.
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