Female

Celeus torquatus occidentalis

Caseara, Tocantins, January 2009

A pair of the subspecies occidentalis was observed several times responding to playback, and photographed, in seasonally inundated gallery woodland beside the rio Araguaia. Winkler & Christie (2002) mapped its range east as far as the state of Pará. Pacheco & Olmos (2006) reported a sight record, which they considered to be the first from the state, in a gallery forest in south-east Tocantins, on 12 October 2004. With hindsight, their brief observation might perhaps as easily have involved the subsequently rediscovered Kaempfer’s Woodpecker Celeus obrieni (Prado 2006). However, the species had already been found at several sites within the Parque Estadual do Cantão, just south-west of Caseara, by Buzzetti (2004). Our observation was perhaps the first state record to be documented photographically.