Interesting facts about Campo flicker by weird square
Channel: Animal Square
Date: 17/01/2018

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The campo flicker (Colaptes campestris) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family. It is found in a wide range of open and semi-open habitats in eastern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and north-eastern Argentina, with isolated populations in Amapá and southern Suriname. Though it frequently can be seen in trees or bushes, it is among the very few woodpeckers that spends a significant portion of its life on the ground. It breeds in holes in trees, termite mounds or earth banks. It is generally common, and therefore considered to be of least concern by IUCN. The southern population has a white (not black) throat, and is sometimes considered a separate species, the pampas flicker (Colaptes campestroides).
A characteristic bird of open country, the Campo Flicker occupies savanna and scrubland; it has a few isolated populations in northeastern South America and in Amazonia, and is widespread in central South America.  These woodpeckers are characterized by their black forehead, red and black malar, dark brown upperparts, and barred underparts. Campo Flickers feed almost exclusively on the ground, walking or hopping along the ground in search of termites, ants and beetles. They sometimes forage in flocks. Campo Flickers have been known to hammer open the large mounds made by terrestrial termites to get at the insects within. Animal planet | Discovery | Netflix | Documentary | Animal World
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