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Little Woodpecker
Veniliornis passerinus (Linnaeus, C 1766)
The little woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae, the woodpeckers, piculets, and wrynecks. It is found in a wide range of wooded habitats in a large part of South America east of the Andes, and generally common. Unlike other similar and comparably sized members of the genus Veniliornis, the little woodpecker lacks a contrasting yellow nape. Source: Wikipedia
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Piciformes
Family:
Picidae
Genus:
Veniliornis
Scientific:
Veniliornis passerinus
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Classification
Order:Piciformes
Family:
Picidae
Genus:
Veniliornis
Scientific:
Veniliornis passerinus
Original description
Citation:
(Linnaeus, C 1766)
Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1
Protonym:
Picus passerinus
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Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
898101E601D55C5D
Avibase ID:
avibase-898101E6
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/898101E6
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 554059
Geographic range:
- Veniliornis passerinus passerinus: The Guianas and ne Brazil
- Veniliornis passerinus olivinus: S Brazil to Paraguay, Bolivia and n Argentina
- Veniliornis passerinus taenionotus: E Brazil
- Veniliornis passerinus tapajozensis: Central Brazil
- Veniliornis passerinus insignis: W-central Brazil
- Veniliornis passerinus diversus: N Brazil
- Veniliornis passerinus modestus: NE Venezuela
- Veniliornis passerinus fidelis: E Colombia to w Venezuela
- Veniliornis passerinus agilis: E Ecuador to n Bolivia and w Brazil
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Source: Clements checklist
Little Woodpecker
Catalan:
Picot menut
Czech:
datel vrabčí
Danish:
Spurvespætte
German:
Sperlingsspecht
Spanish:
Carpintero Chico
Spanish (Spain):
Carpintero Chico
Finnish:
sammaltikka
French:
Pic passerin
Croatian:
sivouha žuna
Italian:
Picchio minore
Japanese (romaji):
himehagera
Japanese:
ヒメハゲラ
Lithuanian:
Žvirblinis genys
Dutch:
Musspecht
Norwegian Nynorsk:
Sporvespett
Norwegian:
Spurvespett
Polish:
dzięcioł jarzębaty
Portuguese:
Pica-pau-pequeno
Portuguese (Brazil):
pica-pau-pequeno
Russian:
Воробьиный дятел
Slovak:
ďateľ vrabčí
Serbian:
Obični zeleni detlić
Swedish:
sparvspett
Ukrainian:
Дзьоган малий
Chinese:
小啄木鸟
Chinese (Traditional):
非洲小啄木
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 00: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 01: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 02: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 03: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 04: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 07 (Jul 2014): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 08 (Oct 2015): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09 (Dec 2016): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Birdlife checklist version 09.1 (Jun 2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v2 (Dec 2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v3 (Nov 2018): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v4 (Dec 2019): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009): Pic passerin ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993): Pic passerin ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 1st edition: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2021: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2022: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 3rd edition: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 4th edition: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (as published): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.7 incl. 2012 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.8 incl. 2013 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements 6th edition (version 6.9 incl. 2014 revisions): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2015: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2016: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2017: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2018: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| Clements, version 2019: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.50: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.52: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.53: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.54: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 1.55: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2015: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2016: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2017: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2018: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2019: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2021: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| eBird version 2022: Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (31/01/2015): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.4: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 3.5: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 4.4: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 5.4: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Morony, Bock and Farrand: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Veniliornis passerinus [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Veniliornis passerinus [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Veniliornis passerinus [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (24/10/2003): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (14/09/2005): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (16/07/2006): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (26/09/2007): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (01/05/2008): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (30/09/2009): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (19/08/2010): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/08/2011): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/02/2012): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (4/09/2012): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (17/03/2013): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (9/02/2014): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (16/02/2015): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (28/07/2016): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (22/04/2017): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (4/06/2018): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (6/06/2019): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (20/02/2020): Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (8/06/2020): Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| South American Classification Committee (24/08/2021): Little Woodpecker ( Dryobates passerinus) [version 1] |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.01: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Working Group Avian Checklists, version 0.02: Little Woodpecker ( Veniliornis passerinus) [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Veniliornis passerinus [version 1] |
| Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Veniliornis passerinus [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: full species
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Catalan: Picot menut
Czech: Datel vrabcí, datel vrabčí
Danish: Spurvespætte
German: Sperling-Specht, Sperlingsspecht
English: Little Woodpecker
English, HBW: Little Woodpecker
English (IOC): Little Woodpecker
English (United States): Little Woodpecker
Esperanto: Paserpego
Spanish: Carpinterito oliváceo, Carpintero Chico, Carpintero oliva chico, Carpintero Oliváceo, Carpintero oliváceo común, Carpintero Ribereño
Spanish (Argentine): Carpintero oliva chico, Carpintero oliváceo común
Spanish (Colombia): Carpintero Ribereño
Spanish (Ecuador): Carpintero Chico
Spanish (Spain): Carpintero Chico
Spanish (HBW): Little Woodpecker
Spanish (Peru): Carpintero Chico
Spanish (Paraguay): Carpinterito oliváceo
Spanish (Venezuela): Carpintero Oliváceo
Estonian: salu-värbrähn
Finnish: Sammaltikka
French: Pic passerin
Guianese Creole French: Charpantyé
Guarani: Ypekû'i, Ypeku-para
Croatian: sivouha žuna
Italian: Picchio minore, Picchio passerino
Japanese (romaji): himehagera
Japanese: ヒメハゲラ
Scientific: Dryobates passerinus, Picus passerinus, Veniliornis passerinus, Veniliornis passerinus passerinus
Lithuanian: Žvirblinis genys
Dutch: Musspecht
Norwegian Nynorsk: Sporvespett
Norwegian: Spurvespett
Polish: dzieciol jarzebaty, dzięcioł jarzębaty
Portuguese: Pica-pau-pequeno, pica-pau-pequeno , pica-pauzinho-anão, picapauzinho-anão
Portuguese (Brazil): Pica-Pau Pequeno, pica-pau-pequeno, pica-pau-pequeno , pica-pauzinho-anão, Picapauzinho-anão
Portuguese (Portugal): pica-pau-pequeno-sul-americano, Picapauzinho-anão
Russian: Воробьиный венилиорнис, Воробьиный дятел
Slovak: ďateľ vrabčí
Serbian: Obični zeleni detlić
Sranan: Timreman
Swedish: Sparvspett
Turkish: Yazılı küçük ağaçkakan
Ukrainian: Дзьоган малий
Wayana: Olohokhok
Chinese: 小啄木鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 小啄木, 非洲小啄木
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