Fulvous-breasted woodpecker

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Fulvous-breasted woodpecker
In Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Dendrocopos
Species:
D. macei
Binomial name
Dendrocopos macei
(Vieillot, 1818)

The fulvous-breasted woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) is a species of

Picidae.[2]
It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar.[3] The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly considered conspecific with this species.

Description

A medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast and belly buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. Withish cheeks partly bordered by black line. Crown red in male with orange forehead, black in female.

Habitat

Its natural

montane forest
.

Gallery

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726376A94920427.en
    . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. S2CID 84724528
    .
  3. ISBN 978-3-642-28334-5
    .

External links

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