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Alternate name: Scarlet-breasted Woodpecker
- Dryobates cathpharius
Dendrocopos cathpharius
Identification
18cm
- Streaked underparts
- White wing-patch
- Crimson breast patch
Male has red nape
Distribution
Asia: found from the Himalayas of Nepal to northwestern Indochina.
Taxonomy
Sometimes merged into Picoides. Most closely related to D. darjellensis and probably more distantly to the D. macei superspecies.
Subspecies
Six subspecies recognized[1]:
- D. c. cathpharius:
- Eastern Himalayas (Nepal to northern Assam)
- D. c. ludlowi:
- South-eastern Tibet
- D. c. pyrrhothorax:
- Hills south of Brahmaputra River and adjacent northern Burma
- D. c. tenebrosus:
- D. c. pernyii:
- Western China (north-western Yunnan, Sichuan and Xinjiang north to Gansu)
- D. c. innixus:
- East-central China (central Hubei)
An additional subspecies cruentipectus is generally considered invalid[2].
Habitat
Hill evergreen forests above 1400m.
Behaviour
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2018. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2018. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Avibase
- Arthur Grosset
- Wikipedia contributors. (2018, March 30). Crimson-breasted woodpecker. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:18, April 24, 2019, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crimson-breasted_woodpecker&oldid=833184816
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Crimson-breasted Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Crimson-breasted_Woodpecker
