Biology:Pale-headed woodpecker

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Short description: Species of bird

Pale-headed woodpecker
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Gecinulus
Species:
G. grantia
Binomial name
Gecinulus grantia
(Horsfield, 1840)

The pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China , India , Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a bamboo specialist,[2][3] and a montane bird.[4]

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2017 found that the pale-headed woodpecker was embedded within the genus Dinopium and was a sister species to the olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii).[5]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Gecinulus grantia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22681525A92909573. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681525A92909573.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22681525/92909573. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Srinivasan, Sidharth; Biswakarma, Aman; Pradhan, D.K.; Rai, Shambu; Srinivasan, Umesh (2023-10-10). "Bamboozling Interactions: Interspecific associations within mixed-species bird flocks in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya". doi:10.1101/2023.10.08.561415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.08.561415. 
  3. Srinivasan, Sidharth; Biswakarma, Aman; Pradhan, D.K.; Rai, Shambu; Srinivasan, Umesh (2023-01-29). "Poles apart: the structure and composition of the bird community in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya". doi:10.1101/2023.01.27.525938. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.27.525938. 
  4. Zhao, Min; Chang, Yongbin; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Zhao, Jian; Lei, Fumin; Qu, Yanhua (2018-11-28). "Pleistocene glaciation explains the disjunct distribution of the Chestnut‐vented Nuthatch (Aves, Sittidae)". Zoologica Scripta 48 (1): 33–45. doi:10.1111/zsc.12327. ISSN 0300-3256. 
  5. Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116: 182–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319596154. 

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