Pale-headed Woodpecker

When to see the Pale-headed Woodpecker

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Pale-headed Woodpecker

The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Bangladesh.

About the Pale-headed Woodpecker

The pale-headed woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a bamboo specialist, and a montane bird.

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Easily confused with

Bamboo WoodpeckerGecinulus viridisThe bamboo woodpecker, or Gecinulus viridis, is a species of bird in the family Picidae. Olive-backed WoodpeckerGecinulus rafflesiiThe olive-backed woodpecker has yellow-green upperparts and gray-olive underparts.