Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker

Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Yungipicus
Species: Y. nanus
Binomial name
Yungipicus nanus
(Vigors, 1832)
Synonyms

Picoides nanus
Dendrocopos nanus

The brown-capped pygmy woodpecker or Indian pygmy woodpecker (Yungipicus nanus) is a species of very small woodpecker found in Nepal, India and Sri Lanka.

Description

A small brown and white woodpecker with distinctive pink-rimmed white irises. Barred brown and white above, lightly streaked dirty white below. Tail spotted white. Paler brown crown (edged red in male) and eyestripes contrasting with white supercilia and cheeks.

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Gallery

Picture taken in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India
Picture of Brown Capped Pygmy Woodpecker taken in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India


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