Brown-capped woodpecker
Brown-capped woodpecker | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Picoides |
Species: | P. nanus |
Binomial name | |
Picoides nanus (Vigors, 1832) | |
The brown-capped woodpecker or Indian pygmy woodpecker (Picoides nanus) is a species of woodpecker found in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.
Description
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.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Dendrocopos nanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.