The details of its breeding biology are little known except for a short list of known host species which incliudes Drab-breasted Bamboo Tyrant, Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher, Eared Pygmy Tyrant and Plain Antvireo.
The taxonomy is difficult, as it hybridizes widely with numerous other piculets such as the Varzea, Ochre-collared and White-wedged Piculet.
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For his oil paintings on canvas, Aimé Morot had a preference for a colour palette consisting of silver white, zinc white, yellow ochre, red ochre, cadmium yellow, cadmium red, raw sienna, burnt sienna, cobalt blue, emerald green, rose madder, carmine lake and ivory black.
Since the death in 2006 of Hector Jandany he is now the oldest male ochre artist in the Kimberly Region.
Recently, Benbecula Records has increasingly represented artists from abroad, particularly Canadian musician Prhizzm, American free jazz artist Brian Ellis, German producer E.Stonji, and English musicians Birdengine, Ochre and Damien Shingleton.
In Malaysia, the island of Langkawi is named after the bird ('kawi' denoting an ochre-like stone used to decorate pottery, and a reference to the bird's primary plumage colour).
The superficially similar Chestnut-backed Thrush is substantially larger when seen alongside one another, and has a black crown and rufous back, whereas the Enggano Thrush has an olive-ochre back and little or no white on the lores and auriculars.
The eye of a Murray cod and flesh from a fresh corpse is coated in a paste made from fish oil and red ochre and attached to the end of the bone.
Moorehead Phase of the Laurentian Tradition or the Moorehead burial tradition: The Red Paint People, who used large quantities of ochre, normally red, to cover both bodies and grave goods, 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE.
In the 1994 film True Lies, Arnold Schwarzenegger infiltrates Ochre Court, which stands in for a villa in Switzerland.
Genetic evidence suggests the closest relative of ochroptera is the Grey-winged Trumpeter, leading some to treat it as a separate species, the Ochre-winged Trumpeter (P. ochroptera).