Pale-headed Woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) [XC799441]
by Brian Cox from C\u00e1t Ti\u00ean National Park, T\u00e2n Ph\u00fa, Dong Nai, Vietnam (drumming)
Pale-headed Woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) [XC19330]
by David Edwards from Cat Tien National Park, Cochinchina, Vietnam (drumming)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Bamboo Woodpecker (Gecinulus viridis), and the two are sometimes treated as conspecific.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
grantia (McClelland, 1840) - Eastern Nepal east to north, central and southern Myanmar and southern China (western Yunnan).