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The Campo flicker (Colaptes campestris) is a bird found in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Open grasslands and farms in central South America. It eats insects and other small invertebrates and small mammals and birds. The IUCN Red List lists it as Least Concern.

🏡 Where the Campo flicker lives

Open grasslands and farms in central South America.

🍽️ What it eats

• 🐛 Insects & bugs90%
• 🐭 Mammals & birds10%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

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Recorded by GABRIEL LEITE (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC1074533. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Campo flicker

Where does the Campo flicker live?

The Campo flicker lives in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. Open grasslands and farms in central South America.

What does the Campo flicker eat?

insects and other small invertebrates (about 90%), small mammals and birds (about 10%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Campo flicker endangered?

There are plenty of these birds. Its IUCN Red List category is Least Concern.

More birds from South America

• Black-breasted puffleg
• Chilean woodstar
• Black-hooded antwren
• Marsh antwren
• Táchira antpitta
• Cundinamarca antpitta

Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.