Japanese Green Woodpecker vs Streak-throated Woodpecker

Japanese Green Woodpecker

Picus awokera

Medium143 gForest

This species reaches about 30 cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the green woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings. The bill is yellow, the legs and feet are light gray colored. The iris is red. Voice: This woodpecker is loudly before and after the breeding season. Their known calls are an individually, loud and whip-crack-similar pijo, and a ket, ket with two syllables. They also drum, and these drumrolls are very fast and long.

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Photo: IMORI MIHO · CC BY 4.0

Streak-throated Woodpecker

Picus xanthopygaeus

Medium100 gWoodland

A medium-sized, green woodpecker with streaked throat and scaly whitish underparts. Green above with yellowish rump, white supercilia and white and black moustache. Crown red in male, blackish in female. Tail dark and plain. Smallish, dark bill. The streak-breasted woodpecker has pale eyes, denser underpart streaking, and a thinner pale moustache stripe. The laced woodpecker has less underpart streaking and a warm yellowish hue all over the neck. The scaly-bellied woodpecker has streaked belly feathers, but unstreaked breast and throat plumage.

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Recorded by Ramkeekovai · Call · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: Kingshuk Mondal · CC BY 4.0

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Japanese Green Woodpecker and Streak-throated Woodpecker.