Alternative name: Pygmy Woodpecker
- Yungipicus kizuki
Picoides kizuki, Dendrocopos kizuki
Identification
13–15 cm (5-6 in)
Male
- Greyish-brown forehead and crown
- Rest of head blackish-brown
- Two red spots on nape, usually concealed
Distribution
Asia: found in Russia, China, Korea and Japan.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
Elleven subspecies are recognized:[1]
- Y. k. permutatus:
- Y. k. seebohmi:
- Sakhalin, the southern Kuril Islands, and northern Japan (Hokkaido)
- Y. k. wilderi:
- eastern China (northern Hebei, Shandong)
- Y. k. nippon:
- Y. k. kotataki:
- Tsushima Island and Oki Island (western Japan)
- Y. k. shikokuensis:
- southern Japan (southwestern Honshu and Shikoku)
- Y. k. kizuki:
- Kyushu (southern Japan)
- Y. k. matsudairai:
- Yakushima Island (off of southern Kyushu) and the Izu Islands
- Y. k. amamii:
- N Ryukyu Islands (Amami-O-Shima and Tokuno-Shima)
- Y. k. nigrescens:
- Okinawa (south central Ryukyu Islands)
- Y. k. orii
- Iriomote (southern Ryukyu Islands)
Ten subspecies recognized by Gill and Donsker[6]and eleven subspecies recognized by Howard & Moore[4]
Habitat
Lowland and sub-alpine mixed coniferous forests and sub-tropical evergreen forests.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists mostly of arthropods, insects, larvae, caterpillars, aphids and ants etc.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Winkler, H. & Christie, D.A. (2019). Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker (Picoides kizuki). In: del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. (retrieved from https://www.hbw.com/node/56213 on 14 April 2019).
- Christidis et al. 2018. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, version 4.1 (Downloadable checklist). Accessed from https://www.howardandmoore.org.
- Fuchs, J. & Pons, J.M. (2015) A new classification of the Pied Woodpeckers assemblage (Dendropicini, Picidae) based on a comprehensive multi-locus phylogeny. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 88:28-37.
- Gill, F, D Donsker, and P Rasmussen (Eds). 2021. IOC World Bird List (v 11.2). Doi 10.14344/IOC.ML.11.2. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/
- Winkler, H., Christie, D.A. & Nurney, D. (1995). Woodpeckers: An Identification Guide to the Woodpeckers of the World. Houghton Mifflin
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Japanese_Pygmy_Woodpecker
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.