Crimson-breasted Woodpecker
Dendrocopos cathpharius
Male Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Lingmethang Road, Mongar, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image

Lingmethang Road, Mongar, Bhutan
April 2008

The Crimson-breasted Woodpecker is distributed from western Nepal and south-east Tibet through north-east India  and Myanmar to central and south-west China. It is found in broad leaved forest.

Male Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Lingmethang Road, Mongar, Bhutan, April 2008 - click for larger image It has a white wing-patch and streaked underparts with a crimson patch on the breast which varies in size. The male, seen here, has red on the nape which is lacking in the female.

There are recordings on xeno-canto .
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