Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans) |
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© Carl Beel | © Steven Wytema | French Guiana © Michel Giraud-Audine |
Chestnut Woodpecker: The males of these chestnut woodpeckers have a red malar spot. The birds are mostly chestnut, except for yellow crest the and some yellow on its rump and flanks and some barring in its underwings. It is easily seen on the Brownsberg, but can be met everywhere around tall trees. Photo of two female Chestnut woodpeckers, the first made by Carl Beel in September 2009 along the birding path in Peperpot and the second one made in the Brownsberg nature park by Steven Wytema, both in Suriname in 2005. Michel Giraud-Audine saw also a female of the Chestnut woodcreeper in March 2014 near wayabo in French Guiana. Alexander Elias made the video of theChestnut Woodpecker. |
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Video recording of a Chestnut Woodpecker © ; |
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Observations through the year | Observations of breeding through the year |
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The 190 reported observations of this bird in Suriname, mainly for the last 50 years up to 2018, have been grouped by month. More birds on one day are counted as one observation. Of course, if the graph should depict the total number of birds seen, the differences between the months could be much more pronounced. | The reported breeding observations of this bird in Suriname. Most observations are about nest with eggs, some about fledglings, or feeding at a nest or the building of a nest. Of the about 5000 nests and eggs found for all species together, about 1/3 comes from the egg collection of Penard between 1896 and 1905. For some reason most collecting then was done in the first half of each year, so the shown distribution does not necessarily reflect the actual breeding preferences. The main dry season in Suriname is reckoned to be from half August to the end of November, the main wet season from half April to half August, but the the timing of begin and end does vary from year to year. Around March a second dry season often occurs. |