Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
15.50 - 17 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1830)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Cambodia (B), India (B), Laos (B), Myanmar (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

Western and north-eastern peninsular India, Bangladesh; and from south-west, southern and eastern Myanmar, and southern Annam, south to southern Thailand, Cambodia, and Cochinchina.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (21)...)

Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) [XC206611]
by Prateik Kulkarni from Yeoor hills, Thane, Maharashtra, India (call, drumming)

Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus) [XC200699]
by Prateik Kulkarni from C\u00e1t Ti\u00ean National Park, T\u00e2n Ph\u00fa, Dong Nai, Vietnam (call, drumming, flight call)

Subspecies
Clinal increase in size from south-west to north-eastern India, but differences negligible. Individual variation fairly marked, but no significant geographical pattern and therefore proposed subspecies cordatus (western India) is unsustainable.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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