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WoodlandCavity nestMedium · 97 g
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About 28 centimetres (11 in) in length. Mostly crimson with black trailing edges to wings. underparts white with messy black marks. The breast and neck are black with white spots on the throat and white streaks on the breast. A black eyestripe stretches to the back of the neck and diffuses into the nape and upper back, with white streaks between the eye and neck. It has a red crown, with the forecrown and forehead black speckled with white in females. The eye is hidden among the black eyestripe. It has a fairly sized grey bill, which forms a blunt point.
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When to see the Red-backed Flameback
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is December, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Red-backed Flameback
The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Red-backed Flameback
The Red-backed flameback, Lesser Sri Lanka flameback, Sri Lanka red-backed woodpecker or Ceylon red-backed woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka, only absent in the far-north. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Black-rumped flameback.
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Easily confused with
Himalayan FlamebackDinopium shoriiThe Himalayan flameback is very similar in appearance to the Greater Goldenback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus) but they are not at all closely related.
Common FlamebackDinopium javanenseMales and females differ in the crest colour, as males have a bright red crest while females have a black crest with white streaks.
Spot-throated FlamebackDinopium everettiThe spot-throated flameback is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
Side by side: Black-rumped Flameback vs Red-backed Flameback · Common Flameback vs Red-backed Flameback · Himalayan Flameback vs Red-backed Flameback
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