Freckle-breasted woodpecker

Freckle-breasted woodpecker
Scientific classification Edit this 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 family Picidae.[2] It is found in Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.[3]

Description

the Andamanese sub-species

It is a medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Its upper parts are black with heavily barred white. The undertail is red; the breast and belly are buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. It has whitish cheeks partly bordered by a black line. The male's crown is red with an orange forehead; the female's is black.

Habitat

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 BirdLife International (2016). "Dendrocopos analis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22726384A94920664. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726384A94920664.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ↑ 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. S2CID 84724528.
  3. ↑ Sivaperuman, C.; Venkataraman, K. (2012). "Abundance and Species Distribution of Bird Communities in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands". In Venkataraman, K.; Raghunathan, C.; Sivaperuman, C. (eds.). Ecology of Faunal Communities on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. pp. 273–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28335-2_18. ISBN 978-3-642-28334-5.
Foraging in the branches of Samanea saman. Semarang, Indonesia.

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