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.
Orinoco piculet feathers are brown tipped with green, and the tail is black, the two central feathers having white inner webs and the outer feathers having a white bar near the tip. The beak is blackish and the legs grey. The call is a thin "seep-seep" and the song a rather longer suite of similar notes. The Orinoco piculet is endemic to eastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil, and is likely to be present also in the adjacent part of southern Venezuela. Its habitat is open tropical humid rainforest, gallery forest, wooded savannah and clumps of trees and scrub at altitudes of up