Fulvous-breasted woodpecker
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| In Kolkata, West Bengal, India. | |
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| Species: | D. macei
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| Dendrocopos macei (Vieillot, 1818)
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The fulvous-breasted woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.[2] It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar.[3] The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly considered conspecific with this species.
Description
A medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast und belly buffwith light flank barring and slight side streaking. Withish cheeks partly bordered by black line. Crown red in male with orange forehead, black in female.
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Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
References
Media related to Dendrocopos macei at Wikimedia Commons
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- ^ Fuchs, Jérôme; Ohlson, Jan I.; Ericson, Per G. P.; Pasquet, Eric (2007). "Synchronous intercontinental splits between assemblages of woodpeckers suggested by molecular data". Zoologica Scripta. 36 (1): 11–25. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00267.x. ISSN 0300-3256.
- ^ Sivaperuman, C.; Venkataraman, K. (2012). "Abundance and Species Distribution of Bird Communities in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands": 273–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28335-2_18.
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