Black-headed Woodpecker (Picus erythropygius)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
31 - 35 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Elliot, 1865)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical dry forest. From sea-level - 1,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

Black-headed Woodpecker (Picus erythropygius) [XC154572]
by Marc Anderson from Doi Inthanon National Park, KM 13, Thailand (call)

Black-headed Woodpecker (Picus erythropygius) [XC88890]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Sorng Rokavorn Community Forest, Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies intergrade.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

nigrigenis (Hume, 1874) - Central and eastern Myanmar (south to northern Tenasserim) and north-western and western Thailand.
erythropygius (Elliot, 1865) - North-eastern Thailand and Indochina.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Black-headed Woodpecker (Picus erythropygius) - 10 files

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