Bhutan, China (mainland), India, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam.
West-central Nepal and southern and south-eastern Tibet east to hills of north-eastern India, northern and western Myanmar, western and south-western China (southern Sichuan, western Yunnan) and northern Vietnam (north-western Tonkin).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis) [XC620465]
by Jelle Scharringa from Ghorepani, western region, Nepal (call)
Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis) [XC355124]
by Mike Dooher from Pelling2Darap Rd, West Sikkim, Sikkim, India (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes merged into Picoides. Related to Scarlet-breasted Woodpecker (Dryobates cathpharius). Other possible relationships require clarification. North-eastern populations average slightly smaller. Birds from western China thus described as subspecies desmursi, but variation is clinal in nature.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
darjellensis (Blyth, 1845) - Nepal to south-eastern Tibet, north-eastern India, northern Myanmar, south-western China and north-western Tonkin.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet