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.
Bucca (mythological creature) in Cornish tin mines, granting wishes in exchange for food (see knockers). Bucca (mythological creature) Bucca is a male sea-spirit in Cornish folklore - a merman- that inhabited mines and coastal communities as a hobgoblin during storms. The mythological creature is a type of water spirit likely related to the Púca from Irish and Welsh folklore and the female mari-morgans - a type of mermaid from Welsh and Breton mythology. Rev W. S. Lach-Szyrma, one 19th-century writer on Cornish antiquities, suggested the Bucca had originally been an ancient pagan deity of the sea such as Irish Nechtan or British Nodens,