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Darjeeling Woodpecker vs Stripe-breasted Woodpecker

Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis)

Darjeeling Woodpecker

Dendrocopos darjellensis

Medium71 gForest

A medium-sized pied woodpecker with yellow neck sides. Black upperparts with large white, scapular patches and white barred flight feathers and tail sides. Male has red nape patch. White cheeks and long black moustache extending to upper breast. Black-streaked, yellow-buff below with red vent. Long bill.

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Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0
Stripe-breasted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos atratus)

Stripe-breasted Woodpecker

Dendrocopos atratus

Small47 gWoodland

Adult length is between 21 and 22 cm (8.3 and 8.7 in). The upper parts are black heavily barred with white, with the mantle being unbarred. The upper tail is black with some white markings on the outer feathers. The crown and nape are red in the male and black in the female. The face is whitish with a black moustache which unites with a stripe on the edge of the breast. The throat, breast and belly are greyish-yellow or greyish-buff, boldly streaked with black. The under tail coverts are red. The iris is chestnut and the beak is grey, long and sharply pointed.

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Photo: (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ian Dugdale · cc-by

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