- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Birds
- ›Woodpeckers and Allies
- ›Woodpeckers
- ›Typical woodpeckers
- ›Green Woodpeckers, Flickers, and Allies
- ›Celeus

On eBird ↗
Chestnut Woodpecker
Live sightings near you, the range map, bar charts of when it is seen, and Macaulay Library photos and recordings.
Chestnut Woodpecker
Celeus elegans
The chestnut woodpecker (Celeus elegans) is a resident breeding bird in South America from Colombia, Venezuela and the Guianas south to Ecuador, Bolivia and northern Brazil, and on Trinidad.
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Celeus elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18081.