Variable Woodpecker

Taxonomy

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae

Genus

Celeus

eBird Code

wavwoo5

Vocalizations

Subspecies (7)

• Celeus undatus amacurensis

  northeastern Venezuela (Delta Amacuro)

• Celeus undatus grammicus

  southeastern Colombia and southern Venezuela to northeastern Peru and western Brazil (eastward to lower Rio Negro and Rio Purus)

• Celeus undatus latifasciatus

  southeastern Peru to northern Bolivia and western Brazil (upper Rio Madeira)

• Celeus undatus multifasciatus

  northeastern Brazil south of the Amazon River (central Pará eastward to Rio Tocantins and western Maranhão)

• Celeus undatus subcervinus

  western Amazonian Brazil, south of the Amazon River, from Rio Purus eastward to lower Rio Tapajos and southward to northern Mato Grosso

• Celeus undatus undatus

  eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and northeastern Brazil north of the Amazon River (west from middle and lower Rio Negro)

• Celeus undatus verreauxii

  tropical eastern Ecuador and adjacent northeastern Peru