| Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendrocopos |
| Species: | D. nanus |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendrocopos nanus (Vigors, 1832) |
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The Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Dendrocopos nanus) is a species of woodpecker found in Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.
A small brown and white woodpecker with distinctive pink-rimmed white irises. Barred brown and white above, lightly streaked dirty white below. Tail spotted white. Paler brown crown (edged red in male) and eyestripes contrasting with white supercilia and cheeks.