White-naped woodpecker
White-naped woodpecker | |
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Male in Hyderabad, India
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Chrysocolaptes |
Species: | C. festivus
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Binomial name | |
Chrysocolaptes festivus (Boddaert, 1783)
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The white-naped woodpecker (Chrysocolaptes festivus) is
Taxonomy
The white-naped woodpecker was described by the French polymath
Two subspecies are recognised:[6]
Description
The white-naped woodpecker is a large species at 29 cm (11 in) in length. It is a typical woodpecker shape. The white hind neck extends down the back, and the black shoulder patches also continue onto the back to form a V-shape bordering the white. The rest of the upperparts and wings are golden yellow. The rump and tail are black, and the underparts are white with dark chevron markings. The head is whitish with a dark moustache stripe and a black eye patch that extends down the neck sides. The adult male white-naped woodpecker has a red crown and females have a yellow crown. Young birds are colored like the female, but duller.[8]
Like other woodpeckers, this species has a straight pointed bill, a stiff tail to provide support against tree trunks, and
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Chrysocolaptes festivus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681522A929094002. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "Le pic vert de Goa". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 13. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. pp. 31–32.
- Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Pic verd, de Goa". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 7. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 696.
- ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 43, Number 696.
- ^ Blyth, Edward (1843). "Mr Blyth's monthly report for the December meeting, 1842, with addenda subsequently appended". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12 Part 2 (143): 925–1011 [1004].
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- . Retrieved 1 February 2024.
- ISBN 0-2281-0119-0.
- Grimmett, Richard; Inskipp, Carol & Inskipp, Tim (1999): Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.. ISBN 0-691-04910-6