Scaly-bellied Woodpecker - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by martinuk
Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India, August 2005

Picus squamatus

Identification

• Green
• Distinct scaling from breast to vent
• Black moustache
• Black bordered white supercilium
• Tail strongly barred
• Crown red in male, black in female
• Large pale bill

Distribution

Asia: found in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Eastern and Western Himalayas.

Taxonomy

Female
Photo by aloktewari
Dwarahat Town, Dist. Almora, Uttarakhand, India, November 2014

Subspecies

There are 2 subspecies^[1]:

• P.s.squamatus :

• North-eastern Afghanistan to northern India (Darjeeling)

• P.s.flavirostris:

• Afghanistan (except north-east) and western Pakistan

Habitat

Coniferous forests; Hilly wooded areas. Observed at heights around 1524m in the Himalayas.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists of ants and fruit.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)

• List of references

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• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Scaly-bellied Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Scaly-bellied_Woodpecker

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