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What the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker sounds like
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A medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast and belly buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. Withish cheeks partly bordered by black line. Crown red in male with orange forehead, black in female.
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When to see the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
The map shades 7 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker
The fulvous-breasted woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar. The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly considered conspecific with this species.
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Easily confused with
Freckle-breasted WoodpeckerDendrocopos analisA medium-sized, pied woodpecker.
Himalayan WoodpeckerDendrocopos himalayensisA medium-sized, pied woodpecker reaching a length of about 24 cm (9 in).
White-backed WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucotosIt is the largest of the spotted woodpeckers in the western Palearctic, 24–26 cm long with wing-span 38–40 cm.
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