Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

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When to see the Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-crowned 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 Vietnam.

About the Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

The yellow-crowned woodpecker or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. It is the only species placed in the genus Leiopicus.

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Easily confused with

White-fronted WoodpeckerMelanerpes cactorumThe adult white-fronted woodpecker is about 17 cm (7 in) in length. Olive WoodpeckerDendropicos griseocephalusThe olive woodpecker is mostly plain, and lacks many of the patterns typically observed in other woodpecker species. Chestnut-colored WoodpeckerCeleus castaneusThe chestnut-colored woodpecker is 21.5 to 25 cm (8.5 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 80 to 105 g (2.8 to 3.7 oz).

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