Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis)

Other Names (World)
Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, Yellow-fronted Woodpecker, Yellow-fronted Pied Woodpecker, Mahratta Woodpecker, Mahratta Pied Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
17 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Latham, 1801)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Cambodia (B), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (14)...)

Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) [XC78443]
by vir joshi from Western Siem Pang area 1, Cambodia (call)

Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) [XC681068]
by id from Tmat Boey, Preah Vihear Province, Cambodia (call)

Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Most closely related to the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) superspecies. Variation mostly clinal, and named subspecies aurocristatus (northern Myanmar) and koelzi (north-western Sri Lanka) are thus unacceptable.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

pallescens (Biswas, 1951) - Eastern Pakistan (east of R Indus) and northern and north-western India.
mahrattensis (Latham, 1801) - Most of India east to Assam, Sri Lanka, and west, central and southern Myanmar, eastern Cambodia, southern Laos and southern Annam; formerly also west-central Thailand (extinct).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) - 10 files

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