Scarlet-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius)

Other Names (World)
Scarlet-breasted Woodpecker, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Crimson-breasted Pied Woodpecker, Small Crimson-breasted Pied Woodpecker, Lesser Pied Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
17 - 17.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Blyth, 1843)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From 1,200 - 3,000 m, occasionally 700 - 3,900 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), China (mainland) (B), India (B), Laos (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (20)...)

Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius) [XC156480]
by Frank Lambert from Mount Fansipan, Sa Pa, Vietnam (call)

Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius) [XC157605]
by Marc Anderson from Mishmi Hills nr Muyudia Pass, Arunachal Pradesh, India (song)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Most closely related to Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis), and probably more distantly to the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) superspecies.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

cathpharius (Blyth, 1843) - West-central Nepal east to Arunachal Pradesh.
ludlowi (Vaurie, 1959) - South-eastern Tibet (southern Tsangpo Valley).
pyrrhothorax (Hume, 1881) - North-eastern India south of R Brahmaputra (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and western Myanmar (west of R Chindwin).
pernyii (Verreaux, J, 1867) - West-central and south-western China (south-western Gansu, northern and eastern Sichuan, north-western Yunnan). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates pernyii).
innixus Bangs & Peters, JL, 1928 - Central China (southern Shaanxi, Hubei).
tenebrosus Rothschild, 1926 - Northern, central and eastern Myanmar, central and southern Yunnan, north-western Thailand, northern Laos and western Tonkin.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Scarlet-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius) - 10 files

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