Red-crowned Woodpecker

Description:

Pecks on decaying wood for ants, beetles and larvae, also takes small insects and spiders and even trunks and branches of foliage. Consume many fruits, including banana feeders. Visit Flowers "raft" (Ochroma pyramidale) to take its nectar. In the stomach of a juvenile only 8% of insects are found, while the remaining 92% consisted of plant material.

Habitat:

Frequents the margins and the more open areas of the forest, gallery groves, mangroves, partially cleared and second growth sites. In forest habitats is frequents the margins and open areas of the forest, gallery groves, mangroves, partially cleared and second growth sites. In forested habitats found in high levels and falls to much lower heights in the clear.