Showing posts with label Record Shot Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Record Shot Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus). Show all posts

15 May 2012

Record Shot : Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus)


Re: Record Shot
Bird: Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus) 
Loc: FH Malaysia.
Date: May 2012.
Note: For record purposes ONLY.

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Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus) 



                            Note: Piculet, 
white-scaled piculet [Credit: Painting by Murrell Butler]
Any of about 29 species of small, stub-tailed birds related to the woodpeckers and constituting the subfamily Picumninae, family Picidae. Nearly all are restricted to Central and South America; there are three species in East Asia and one in western Africa. Piculets, 9–14 cm (3.5–5.5 inches) long, are mottled gray-green to brown above, often with salt-and-pepper head, and are white below, with spots or bars. They climb like nuthatches, looking for insects, and are able to perch crosswise on branches. Though small-billed, piculets dig nest holes in soft wood...more

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/558781/speckled-piculet
                                                                                    Source :  Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
                                  Record Shot Speckled Piculet (Picumnus innominatus) - wt RN, JI, MJ, HG. DS & EB @  Msia 512..many thanks...     more to come...