Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei)

Other Names (World)
Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker, Fulvous-breasted Pied Woodpecker, Spotted-breasted Pied Woodpecker, Streak-bellied Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
17 - 18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1818)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 2,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh (B), Bhutan (B), Cambodia (B), India (B), Indonesia (B), Laos (B), Myanmar (B), Nepal (B), Pakistan (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 (8)...)

Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) [XC116535]
by from Nameri National Park, Assam, India (call)

Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) [XC319511]
by Peter Boesman from Sattal, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India (call, ?)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Stripe-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos atratus). Eastern subspecies analis, longipennis and andamanensis have sometimes been treated as forming a separate species. Birds from western Javan hills described as subspecies montis, but inseparable from analis.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

westermani (Blyth, 1870) - Northern Pakistan (Margalla Hills), north-western India (Himachal Pradesh) and western Nepal.
macei (Vieillot, 1818) - Central Nepal east to northern Myanmar, and southern in eastern peninsular India to Orissa and north-eastern Andhra Pradesh.
andamanensis (Blyth, 1859) - Andaman Is.
longipennis Hesse, 1912 - Southern Myanmar, north-west, western and central Thailand, and central Laos and Annam south to Cambodia and Cochinchina.
analis (Bonaparte, 1850) - Java and Bali; probably also southern Sumatra.

References
See References.

Files:

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