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Dendrocopos canicapillus

Photo by Jia-wei
Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China, October 2006

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Asia, Russia
Russia: Siberia
Asia: China, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Korea, Taiwan
Southeast Asia: Indochina, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Indonesia, Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• D. c. doerriesi:

• Eastern Siberia (Ussuriland) to Korea and eastern Manchuria

• D. c. scintilliceps:

• Eastern and central China (Liaoning to Sichuan and Zhejiang)

• D. c. kaleensis:

• South-western China (Sichuan to Fujian) to northern Burma, northern Indochina; Taiwan

• D. c. swinhoei:

• Hainan Island (southern China)

• D. c. semicoronatus:

• Extreme eastern Nepal to western Assam

• D. c. mitchellii:

• Western Nepal to north-western India and northern Pakistan

• D. c. canicapillus:

• Eastern Assam, Bangladesh to central and southern Burma, Thailand and Laos

• D. c. delacouri:

• South-eastern Thailand, Cambodia and Cochinchina

• D. c. auritus:

• Southern Thailand and Malay Peninsula

• D. c. volzi:

• Sumatra, Riau Archipelago and Nias Island

• D. c. aurantiiventris:

• Borneo

[edit] Habitat

Female
Photo by Karim Madoya
Kota Kinabalu Malaysia, March 2005

[edit] Behaviour

Call: Tiirr..Tiirr , continously and repeatedly.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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