Bar-breasted piculet Bar-breasted piculet The bar-breasted piculet ("Picumnus aurifrons") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and sometimes in heavily degraded former forest. The bar-breasted piculet is generally found in humid forests, including "terra firme" and "várzea", and are generally seen within such areas in the edges, second growth, and clearings. This species is of note as the smallest extant species in the highly diverse woodpecker family. A typical adult will measure only in length and will weigh . Among standard
White-wedged piculet are brown above, with pale edgings to the secondaries and tertiaries, and the tail is brown, the two central feathers being white, and there being a white patch on the outer edge near the tip. The throat, breast and belly are white with black scaling, the flanks and lower belly being less scaled than elsewhere. The iris is brown, the beak blackish and the legs grey. The juvenile is similar to the female but has a paler crown. The native range of the white-wedged piculet in tropical South America includes parts of Bolivia, southern Brazil and northern Paraguay; it is