Yellow-crowned woodpecker

Yellow-crowned woodpecker
Male at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Leiopicus
Species:	L. mahrattensis
Binomial name
Leiopicus mahrattensis (Latham, 1802)

Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India

The yellow-crowned woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent.

Description

Medium-sized, pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, steaked dingywithe with red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow.

Gallery

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  Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.

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  Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.

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  in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

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