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 Bonaparte, 1854
Species:	L. mahrattensis
Binomial name
*Leiopicus mahrattensis* (Latham, 1801)

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

Taxonomy

The Yellow-crowned woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Picus mahrattensis.^[2]

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

Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India
Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.
Male at Hodal in Faridabad District of Haryana, India.
in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.

References

↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Dendrocopos mahrattensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
↑ Latham, John (1801). Supplementum indicis ornithologici sive systematis ornithologiae (in Latin). London: Leigh & Sotheby. p. xxxi.

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