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Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

Conservation status

Least Concern

Population Trend

Stable

Alternate Names

Yellow-fronted Pied Woodpecker, Mahratta Woodpecker

Native Habitat

Woodland

Diet

Insects

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Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

Leiopicus mahrattensis

The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in South Asia.

It is Medium-sized, pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, steaked dingywithe with red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow.

Regional Names
  • Gujarati:
    કાબરો લક્કડખોદ
  • Hindi:
    कठफोड़वा
  • Malayalam:
    മറാട്ടാ മരംകൊത്തി
  • Marathi:
    मराठा सुतार, पगडीवाला सुतार
  • Nepali:
    पहेंलोटाउके काष्ठकुट
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Leiopicus mahrattensis