Freckle-breasted woodpecker

Freckle-breasted woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Dendrocopos
Species: D. analis
Binomial name
Dendrocopos analis
(Bonaparte, 1850)

The freckle-breasted woodpecker (Dendrocopos analis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.[1] It is found in Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.[2]

Description

A medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast und belly buffwith 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 forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

References

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  1. 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.
  2. Sivaperuman, C.; Venkataraman, K. (2012). "Abundance and Species Distribution of Bird Communities in Ritchie’s Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands": 273–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28335-2_18.
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