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What the Rufous-breasted Piculet sounds like
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The rufous-breasted piculet is 9 to 11 cm (3.5 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 12 to 21 g (0.42 to 0.74 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a black crown with wide red tips on most of the feathers and small white to buff spots on its sides and rear border. Their face, a narrow collar on their nape, and their underparts are rich orange rufous or rufous chestnut. Their upperparts are yellowish olive. Their flight feathers are dark with yellowish olive edges. Voice: The rufous-breasted piculet's song is "a slow, descending series of high, lisping notes (generally 2): seep seep." Its calls include "single quick seep notes or a rapid tsit tsit in flight."
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When to see the Rufous-breasted Piculet
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Rufous-breasted Piculet
The map shades 4 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 Colombia.
About the Rufous-breasted Piculet
The rufous-breasted piculet is a species of bird in subfamily Picumninae of the woodpecker family Picidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
White-bellied PiculetPicumnus spilogasterThe white-bellied piculet is 8 to 9.2 cm (3.1 to 3.6 in) long and weighs 7 to 12 g (0.25 to 0.42 oz).
Speckle-chested PiculetPicumnus steindachneriThe speckle-chested piculet is 9 to 10 cm (3.5 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 10 g (0.35 oz).
Plain-breasted PiculetPicumnus castelnauThe plain-breasted piculet is 8 to 10 cm (3.1 to 3.9 in) long and weighs about 11 to 12 g (0.39 to 0.42 oz).
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