Streak-throated woodpecker

The streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus) is a species of woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. It occurs in drier woodland, from lowland to the foothills of mountains.

Streak-throated woodpecker
Male bird in Corbett National Park and a sound recording from Tamil Nadu, India
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Picus
Species:	P. xanthopygaeus
Binomial name
Picus xanthopygaeus (Gray, JE & Gray, GR, 1847)
Synonyms
Picus myrmecophoneus

Description

A medium-sized, green woodpecker with streaked throat and scaly whitish underparts. Green above with yellowish rump, white supercilia and white and black moustache. Crown red in male, blackish in female. Tail dark and plain. Smallish, dark bill.

Similar species

The streak-breasted woodpecker has pale eyes, denser underpart streaking, and a thinner pale moustache stripe. The laced woodpecker has less underpart streaking and a warm yellowish hue all over the neck. The scaly-bellied woodpecker has streaked belly feathers, but unstreaked breast and throat plumage.

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  male feeding on termites at Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka
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  female at Nilambur in Kerala
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  dorsal view of a female in western Tamil Nadu
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  male at Kaziranga National Park in Assam