Olivaceous piculet stripe. Throat buff, underparts cream, lightly streaked with olive-brown. Male red-streaked forehead, female white-spotted forehead. Length . Forages in family or mixed-species groups, often in dense undergrowth, gleaning and probing into timber. The diet consists of both adults and larvae of ants, termites, beetles and other invertebrates. Nests in holes in trees. olivaceous definitions, expressions, translations, and inflections Webster's Online Olivaceous piculet The olivaceous piculet ("Picumnus olivaceus") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. Etymologically, piculet is as a double diminutive of the Latin "picus", "woodpecker", see also Picus. In Greek, δρύοψ is woodpecker, which shares its roots
Rufous piculet of bare skin around the eye. The legs and feet are yellowish or orange, and this piculet has just three toes on each foot, (four being normal in the woodpecker family). The juvenile is rather more grey. The rufous piculet is native to tropical southeastern Asia. Its range extends from southern Myanmar, through Thailand and the Malay Peninsula to the Greater Sunda Islands and Borneo. It is a resident and sedentary species, generally restricted to the lowlands and hills, but at altitudes of up to about in Borneo. Its typical habitat is dense humid secondary forests with tangled undergrowth, vines,