Heart-spotted woodpecker
Heart-spotted woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Hemicircus |
Species: | H. canente
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Binomial name | |
Hemicircus canente (
Lesson , 1832) | |
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The heart-spotted woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) is a species of
Taxonomy
The heart-spotted woodpecker was
Description
A small, uniquely shaped, black and buff woodpecker with a large
Habitat and distribution
Its natural
Behaviour and ecology
These woodpeckers forage in pairs, sometimes joining mixed-species foraging flocks. They fly from tree to tree in a sharply bounding flight giving a head-heavy appearance. They forage on thin branches and call often. They feed mainly on insects under bark but have been known to peck the pods of Cassia fistula to obtain insect larvae.[16] The calls include a sharp twee-twee-twee (duet call) sometimes leading to a trill of several notes,[17] a nasal ki-yeew[18] and repeated su-sie calls.[19] They drum infrequently during the breeding season, mainly during winter and before the Monsoons. The nest is bored in a dead branch with a narrow 3 to 4 cm diameter opening and the tunnel going down obliquely about 20 cm before widening into a chamber. Nests may sometimes be built in fence posts.[20] The usual clutch is 2 or 3 eggs, which are unmarked white.[10] Ticks of the species Haemaphysalis spinigera have been noted on these birds.[21]
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Hemicircus canente". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681572A92911431. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ Lesson, René P. (1830). Centurie zoologique, ou, Choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus : enrichi de planches inédites, dessinées d'après nature par M. Prêtre, gravées et coloriées avec le plus grand soin. Paris: Chez F.G. Levrault. p. 215. Although the title page gives the year as 1830, the book was not published until 1832.
- ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 223.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Swainson, William John (1837). On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. Vol. 2. London: John Taylor. p. 306.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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- S2CID 29592388. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2011-07-19.
- ^ a b c Ali, S.; Ripley, S.D. (1983). Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 236–237.
- ^ Blanford WT (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Volume 3. Taylor and Francis, London. pp. 68–70.
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- ^ Kanoje, R (1995). "Heartspotted Woodpecker in the Kanha National Park". Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 35 (5): 96.
- ^ Ali,S (1951). "The Heart-spotted Woodpecker - Hemicircus canente". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 49 (4): 786–787.
- ^ Jerdon,T C (1840). "Catalogue of the birds of the peninsula of India". Madras Journal of Literature and Science. 11 (27): 209–239.
- ^ Santharam, V. (1998). "Woodpeckers feeding on Cassia pods". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 95 (3): 505–506.
- ^ Betts, FN (1934). "South Indian woodpeckers". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 37: 197–203.
- ^ Rasmussen PC; JC Anderton (2005). Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide. Vol. 2. Smithsonian Institution & Lynx Edicions. p. 291.
- ^ Santharam, V. (2004). "Duetting calls of the Heart-spotted Woodpeckers Hemicircus canente (Lesson)". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 101 (1): 157–158.
- ^ Inglis, Charles M (1931). "The nesting of the Malabar Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canante cordatus) in Travancore". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 35 (1): 207–208.
- ^ Rajagopalan, PK (1972). "Ixodid ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) parasitizing wild birds in the Kyasanur forest disease area of Shimoga District, Mysore State, India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 69 (1): 55–78.
Other sources
- Menon, G.K. (1985) On the source of 'resin' in the plumage of heart spotted woodpecker, Hemicircus canente. Pavo 23(1&2), 107–109.
- Neelakantan, K.K. (1965) The nesting of the Heartspotted Woodpecker. Newsletter for Birdwatchers . 5(3), 6–8.