Laced woodpecker
| Laced woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Picus |
| Species: | P. vittatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Picus vittatus Vieillot, 1818
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The laced woodpecker (Picus vittatus) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
It is found throughout Southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.[1] A sole specimen recorded for Bangladesh has since been reidentified as a streak-breasted woodpecker.[2]
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Gallery
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Kaeng Krachen Nat’l Park - Thailand -
Kuala Selangor, Malaysia, Sept 1997
References
[edit]- ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Picus vittatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681450A92907392. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681450A92907392.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ Rasmussen, Pamela C. (September 2009). "Streak-breasted Woodpecker Picus viridanus in Bangladesh: re-identification of specimen recorded as Laced Woodpecker P. vittatus" (PDF). Forktail. 16 (3): 183–184.
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