Orinoco piculet Orinoco piculet The Orinoco piculet ("Picumnus pumilus") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The adult Orinoco piculet is about long. The upper parts are olive brown, sometimes lightly barred with tawny brown, and the underparts are cream or buff, boldly barred with dark brown. The head is brown speckled with white and has a white post-ocular streak. The male has faint yellow streaking or spotting on the fore crown but the female lacks this. The primary and secondary wing
Tawny piculet with white. In other regards, the sexes are similar; the cheeks and neck are tawny and the ear coverts brown. There is a slight white moustachial stripe and white streaking above and behind the eye. The throat is cream, and the breast and belly are yellowish-brown, sometimes with white streaking on the breast. The wings are brown and the upper tail blackish, except for the central feathers which are white. The beak and legs are grey and the iris rufous, with a greyish ring of bare skin round the eye. The tawny piculet is endemic to the Amazon rainforest of