© monacoeye • Mostardas, Brazil, 2009 • All rights reserved

Bird name: Field Flicker
Latin: Colaptes campestris campestroides
Other: Colaptes campestroides • Campo Flicker • Br: Pica-pau-do-campo, Chanchã, Chanchão, Pica-pau-de-manga, Pica-pau-malhado • Es: Carpintero Campestre
Family: Picidae • Woodpeckers • Flickers
Range: S Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, NE Argentina
Similar: Campo Flicker

The Field Flicker is a southern subspecies of Campo Flicker with white throat. Males may have red moustaches (below) and females black moustaches (above).

Below, Field Flicker, showing white throat and reddish moustache, Mostardas, Brazil, 2009
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© monacoeye • Transpantaneira, Brazil, 2011 • All rights reserved

Bird name: Campo Flicker
Latin: Colaptes campestris
Other: Field Flicker • Br: Pica-pau-do-campo, Chanchã, Chanchão, Pica-pau-de-manga, Pica-pau-malhado • Es: Carpintero Campestre
Family: Picidae • Woodpeckers • Flickers
Range: Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, NE Argentina
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The Campo Flicker, is a widespread type of flicker, or woodpecker, found in Brazil. Often walks on the ground or perches not far from it, sometimes in exposed areas like lawns or roadsides. Often seen in pairs or groups. Not very timid.

Pictured above is the nominate subspecies, Colaptes c. campestris, which has a black throat, and perhaps more orange than yellow around the throat - photographed here in the Pantanal. Males have a red moustachial stripe and females a black one.

Pictured below is the southern white-throated subspecies, Colaptes campestris campestroides, also called the Field Flicker - photo in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, perched on a rather uncomfortable looking cactus.

Below, Field Flicker, showing white throat, Mostardas, Brazil, 2009
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