Biology:Fulvous-breasted woodpecker
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Short description: Species of bird in Picidae family
| Fulvous-breasted woodpecker | |
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| In Kolkata, West Bengal, India . | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendrocopos |
| Species: | D. macei
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| Binomial name | |
| Dendrocopos macei (Vieillot, 1818)
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The fulvous-breasted woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.[2] It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar.[3] The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly considered conspecific with this species.
Description
A medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast and belly buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. Withish cheeks partly bordered by black line. Crown red in male with orange forehead, black in female.
Habitat
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Gallery
In Kolkata
In Chitawan National Park, Nepal.
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References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Dendrocopos macei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22726376A94920427. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726376A94920427.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22726376/94920427. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ↑ Fuchs, Jérôme; Ohlson, Jan I.; Ericson, Per G. P.; Pasquet, Eric (2007). "Synchronous intercontinental splits between assemblages of woodpeckers suggested by molecular data". Zoologica Scripta 36 (1): 11–25. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00267.x. ISSN 0300-3256.
- ↑ Sivaperuman, C.; Venkataraman, K. (2012). Abundance and Species Distribution of Bird Communities in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. pp. 273–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28335-2_18. ISBN 978-3-642-28334-5.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q31804 entry
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