Splendid Woodpecker

The splendid woodpecker is 33 to 35 cm (13 to 14 in) long and weighs 225 to 250 g (7.9 to 8.8 oz). Both sexes have a red forehead, crown, nape, and hindneck, a thin black line above the eye, a thin buff supercilium behind the eye, a wider black band from the nares through the eye to the red of the nape, and a black chin and upper throat. Males have a wide buff band between the black eye band and chin; on females the rear of the band extends down the side of the neck to the upper breast.