Ocellated piculet Ocellated piculet The ocellated piculet ("Picumnus dorbignyanus") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and heavily degraded former forest. It was first described in 1845 as "Picumnus d’Orbignyanus" by the French ornithologist Frédéric de Lafresnaye, being named in honour of the French naturalist Alcide d'Orbigny, but since then has been largely mis-spelt as "P. dorbygnianus". It hybridizes with the white-barred piculet where their ranges overlap. The adult ocellated piculet is long. The sexes are similar apart from the forecrown which
Piculet Piculet The piculets are a distinctive subfamily, Picumninae, of small woodpeckers which occur mainly in tropical South America, with just three Asian and one African species. Like the true woodpeckers, piculets have large heads, long tongues which they use to extract their insect prey and zygodactyl feet, with two toes pointing forward, and two backwards. However, they lack the stiff tail feathers that the true woodpeckers use when climbing trees, so they are more likely than their relatives to perch on a branch rather than an upright trunk. Their bills are shorter and less dagger-like than the true woodpeckers, so