Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker
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Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Yungipicus |
Species: | Y. nanus
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Binomial name | |
Yungipicus nanus (Vigors, 1832)
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Synonyms | |
Picoides nanus |
The brown-capped pygmy woodpecker or Indian pygmy woodpecker (Yungipicus nanus) is a species of very small woodpecker found in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. Some taxonomic authorities continue to place this species in the genus Dendrocopos or Picoides.
Description
A small brown and white woodpecker with distinctive pink-rimmed white irises. Barred brown and white above, lightly streaked dirty white below. Tail spotted white. Paler brown crown (edged red in male) and eyestripes contrasting with white supercilia and cheeks.
Gallery
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Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, India.
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Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
Media related to Yungipicus nanus at Wikimedia Commons
References
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Picoides nanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681060A92891080. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681060A92891080.en. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
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