Greyish piculet Greyish piculet The greyish piculet ("Picumnus granadensis") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to Colombia. The greyish piculet is part of a superspecies with the olivaceous piculet, and may even be conspecific, or the same species. There are two described subspecies: "P. g. antioquensis" in the northern part and "P. g. granadensis" in the southern part of the range. A small woodpecker. Black cap with yellow dots. Blackish superciliary. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forest, subtropical moist forests, shade coffee plantations and heavily degraded former forest. Mostly found in the Cauca River Valley.
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