Streak-throated woodpecker
| Streak-throated woodpecker | |
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| Male bird in Corbett National Park and a sound recording from Tamil Nadu, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Picus |
| Species: | P. xanthopygaeus
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| Binomial name | |
| Picus xanthopygaeus | |
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Picus myrmecophoneus | |
The streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus) is a species of woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. It occurs in drier woodland, from lowland to the foothills of mountains.
Description
[edit]A medium-sized, green woodpecker with streaked throat and scaly whitish underparts. Green above with yellowish rump, white supercilia and white and black moustache. Crown red in male, blackish in female. Tail dark and plain. Smallish, dark bill.
Similar species
[edit]The streak-breasted woodpecker has pale eyes, denser underpart streaking, and a thinner pale moustache stripe. The laced woodpecker has less underpart streaking and a warm yellowish hue all over the neck. The scaly-bellied woodpecker has streaked belly feathers, but unstreaked breast and throat plumage.
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male feeding on termites at Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka -
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dorsal view of a female in western Tamil Nadu -
male at Kaziranga National Park in Assam
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References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Picus xanthopygaeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681453A92907638. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681453A92907638.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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