Tawny piculet Tawny piculet The tawny piculet ("Picumnus fulvescens") is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to eastern Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and dry savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss. The tawny piculet is a small species with a length of about . The upper parts are a plain, slightly buffy brown. The male has a black crown streaked with scarlet at the front and centre, sometimes forming a patch. The female lacks any red on the head and has a black crown spotted
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