Celeus flavus subflavus, Sclater & Salvin, 1877

Lima, Rafael Dantas, Silveira, Luís Fábio, Lemos, Renata Constant de Amorim, Lobo-Araújo, Lahert William, Andrade, Arthur Barbosa de, Francisco, Mercival Roberto & Efe, Márcio Amorim, 2022, An annotated avian inventory of the Brazilian state of Alagoas, one of the world’s most threatened avifauna, Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 62, pp. 1-36 : 9

Celeus flavus subflavus

The occurrence of this species in the PCE has sometimes been overlooked in reference works (e.g., Short, 1982; Gorman, 2014).The collection of two individuals at Usina Sinimbu in 1952 (MZUSP 37301 and 37302; Pinto, 1954), another three at this same site in 1957 (MZUSP 38993, LACM 26799 and 26800), one in Coruripe (MNRJ 33860), and two at Fazenda Santa Justina (MNRJ 35716 and 35717), in the 1980s, suggest that this woodpecker was once common in the state’s coastal forests. We are not aware of any records in the PCE since the 1980s and the taxon may therefore be extinct in the PCE.