NOUN
- small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers
How To Use piculet In A Sentence
- The avian family Picidae includes the woodpeckers, piculets and wrynecks.
- Small in size, the piculet ranges from 3 to 5 inches in length.
- But curiously enough, there is no hard evidence of this piculet from Guyana, according to the last checklist published that I know of.
- Other important birds are lesser seed-finch (Oryzoborus angolensis), ruddy-breasted seedeater (Sporaphila minuta), slate-colored seedeater (Sporophila schistacea), Guianan piculet (Picumnus minutissimus), blood-coloured woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus), and the crimson-hooded manakin (Pipra aureola). Paramaribo swamp forests
- The Fine-barred Piculet (Picumnus subtilis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Peru.
- Moreover, the number of transitions as a function of transversions appears linear over the range of nucleotide divergences represented by woodpeckers and the piculet.