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The ocellated piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs 7 to 11 g (0.25 to 0.39 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black cap with red tips on the forehead feathers and small white spots on the rest of the cap. Their face is mostly buff-brown with faint blackish bars and a white stripe behind the eye. Their upperparts are dull brownish, sometimes with faint whitish bars. Their flight feathers are dark brown with buffish white edges and tips. Voice: The ocellated piculet's song is "a high-pitched, rapid, falling trill: tree'e'e'e'e'e'e".
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When to see the Ocellated Piculet
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Ocellated Piculet
The map shades 2 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Argentina.
About the Ocellated Piculet
The ocellated piculet is a species of bird in subfamily Picumninae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru and possibly Argentina.
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Easily confused with
Spotted PiculetPicumnus pygmaeusThe spotted piculet is about 10 cm (3.9 in) long.
Ecuadorian PiculetPicumnus sclateriThe Ecuadorian piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 10 to 12 g (0.35 to 0.42 oz).
Bar-breasted PiculetPicumnus aurifronsThe bar-breasted piculet is the smallest extant species in the highly diverse woodpecker family.
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