Yellow-crowned woodpecker
| Yellow-crowned woodpecker | |
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| Male at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Project | |
| 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) | |
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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] The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended an alternative arrangement in which the genera Leiopicus and Dendrocoptes and are combined into a larger Dendropicos.[3]
Description
Medium-sized, pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, streaked 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
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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.
- ↑ Sangster, G.; et al. (2016). "Taxonomic recommendations for Western Palearctic birds: 11th report". Ibis. 158 (1): 206–212. doi:10.1111/ibi.12322.
