Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Pale-headed Woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) - HBW 7, p. 549
French: Pic grantia
German: Blassscheitel-Bambusspecht
Spanish: Pito del Bambú Norteño
Other common names: Bamboo Woodpecker (when lumped with G. viridis)
Taxonomy: Picus (Chrysonotus) Grantia McClelland, 1840, Assam.
Forms a superspecies with G. viridis, and the two are sometimes treated as conspecific. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- grantia (McClelland, 1840) - E Nepal E to N, C & S Myanmar and S China (W Yunnan).
- indochinensis Delacour, 1927 - SW Yunnan, NW Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.
- viridanus Slater, 1897 - SE China (N Guangdong, Fujian).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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obscured, moving up bamboo Locality Cat Tien National Park, Cochinchina, Vietnam (ssp indochinensis)
Martin Kennewell 16 May 2011 2 years ago 17 sec 2.7
- No photographs available yet
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2 birds in bamboo responded to play back Locality Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia
(ssp indochinensis)
Niels Poul Dreyer 14 January 2010 3 years ago 4.5 -
An individual druming. Locality Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia
(ssp indochinensis)
Josep del Hoyo 13 March 2011 1 year ago 4 -
Calls by two birds. Locality Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia
(ssp indochinensis)
Josep del Hoyo 13 March 2011 1 year ago 3.7
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