Eastern Mexico (eastern San Luis Potosí and southern Tamaulipas southward to Veracruz, Yucatán, and Isthmus of Tehuantepec on Gulf coast southward to near Tehuantepec City) through Central America to Panama and northwestern Colombia
nigricrissa
nigricrissa (nigricrissa)
Western Colombia (west slope of Western Andes, the Cauca Valley, and the east slope of the northern Central Andes), western Ecuador, and extreme northwestern Peru (Tumbes and Piura)
mehleri
cayana (Amazonian)
NE Colombia and coastal n Venezuela east to Paría Peninsula
mesura
cayana (Amazonian)
Colombia east of the Andes and e Ecuador
circe
cayana (Amazonian)
W Venezuela (region south of Lake Maracaibo)
cayana
cayana (Amazonian)
Orinoco Valley of Venezuela to the Guianas and n Brazil
insulana
cayana (Amazonian)
Trinidad
obscura
cayana (Amazonian)
Brazil south of the Amazon (Rio Juruá to Rio Tapajós)
hellmayri
cayana (Amazonian)
Brazil south of the Amazon (Santarém to Amazon delta)
pallescens
cayana (Amazonian)
E Brazil (Piauí, Pernambuco, n Bahia and adjacent e Goiás)
cabanisi
cayana (Amazonian)
S-central Brazil (central Mato Grosso and adjacent Goiás)
macroura
cayana (Amazonian)
SE Brazil to Paraguay, Uruguay and ne Argentina
mogenseni
cayana (Amazonian)
S Bolivia and adjacent nw Argentina
Endemic status
Sound Guide
A sharp woodpecker-like call sounding like Ladder-backed or the european Great Spotted Woodpecker, but the quality of the sound is more nasal.
