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Male
Photo by MountainMan
Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, April 2006

Meiglyptes tukki

Distribution

Southeast Asia: found in Indochina, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Malay Peninsula, Brunei, Borneo, Indonesia, Greater Sundas, Sumatra and Sulawesi

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 5 subspecies^[1]:

• M. t. tukki:

• Southern Burma, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, northern Borneo and adjacent islands

• M. t. percnerpes:

• Southern Borneo

• M. t. batu:

• Batu Islands (off western Sumatra)

• M. t. pulonis:

• Banggi Island (off northern Borneo)

Female
Photo by Jason Tan
Pahang, Malaysia, August 2006

• M. t. infuscatus:

• Nias Island (off north-western Sumatra)

Habitat

Broadleaved evergreen forest and lowland rainforest, up to 1100m.

Behaviour

Juveniles
Photo by SeeToh
Panti Bird Sanctuary, Malaysia, July 2013

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Buff-necked Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 16 January 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Buff-necked_Woodpecker

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