Chestnut Woodpecker

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae

Genus

Celeus

eBird Code

chewoo2

Subspecies (6)

• Celeus elegans citreopygius

  eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru

• Celeus elegans deltanus

  northeastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro)

• Celeus elegans elegans

  French Guiana, adjacent Suriname, and northeastern Brazil north of the Amazon River (Rio Branco eastward to Amapá)

• Celeus elegans hellmayri

  eastern Venezuela to Guyana and Suriname, and far northern Brazil (northern Roraima)

• Celeus elegans jumanus

  eastern Colombia to southwestern Venezuela, northern Bolivia, and southern Amazonian Brazil eastward to Rio Negro and, south of the Amazon River, eastward to Maranhão, and southward to Rondônia and Mato Grosso

• Celeus elegans leotaudi

  Trinidad