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WoodlandCavity nestSmall · 47 g
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Adult length is between 21 and 22 cm (8.3 and 8.7 in). The upper parts are black heavily barred with white, with the mantle being unbarred. The upper tail is black with some white markings on the outer feathers. The crown and nape are red in the male and black in the female. The face is whitish with a black moustache which unites with a stripe on the edge of the breast. The throat, breast and belly are greyish-yellow or greyish-buff, boldly streaked with black. The under tail coverts are red. The iris is chestnut and the beak is grey, long and sharply pointed.
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When to see the Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
The map shades 6 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 India.
About the Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
The stripe-breasted woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker family, Picidae. It is found in Southeast Asia within subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
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Easily confused with
Darjeeling WoodpeckerDendrocopos darjellensisA medium-sized pied woodpecker with yellow neck sides.
White-winged WoodpeckerDendrocopos leucopterusThe white-winged woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
Okinawa WoodpeckerDendrocopos noguchiiThis is a medium-sized (31 cm), dark woodpecker.
Side by side: Darjeeling Woodpecker vs Stripe-breasted Woodpecker
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