Woodpeckers (Picidae)
White-naped Woodpecker (Chrysocolaptes festivus) - HBW 7, p. 547
French: Pic de Goa
German: Goldschulterspecht
Spanish: Pito Dorsiblanco
Other common names: Black-rumped Woodpecker, Black-backed Woodpecker(!), Black-backed Yellow Woodpecker
Taxonomy: Picus festivus Boddaert, 1783, Goa, India.
Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- festivus (Boddaert, 1783) - SW Nepal and most of India (except E coast).
- tantus Ripley, 1946 - N & S Sri Lanka.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A male foraging in a large dead tree. Locality Jim Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India (ssp festivus)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 1 February 2008 4 years ago 19 sec 3.7 -
one feeding on tree trunk Locality Chikalda Hill Station, Amravati District, Amravati Division, Maharashtra, India (ssp festivus)
Martin Kennewell 18 December 2009 3 years ago 36 sec 2
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A female bird
Locality Masinagudi, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India (ssp festivus)
vasanthan.p.j 30 August 2010 2 years ago 4.2 -
Woodpecker hopping from branch to branch foraging insects.
Locality Mysore, Mysore District, Karnataka, India
Ragoorao 19 June 2010 2 years ago 3.4 -
Woodpecker gleanig a coconut tree trunk for insects.
Locality Mysore, Mysore District, Karnataka, India
Ragoorao 23 July 2010 2 years ago 3.4 -
Woodpecker clinging on a branch searching for insects under the bark.
Locality Mysore, Mysore District, Karnataka, India
Ragoorao 20 May 2009 2 years ago 3.2 -
A male bird
Locality Masinagudi, The Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu, India
vasanthan.p.j 9 March 2013 9 weeks ago 3 -
Woodpecker exploring into a Parakeet's abandoned nest-hole.
Locality Mysore, Mysore District, Karnataka, India
Ragoorao 23 July 2010 2 years ago 3
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Recorded at Rajpipla Gujarat Locality Gujarat, India
deomurari 3 May 2010 2 years ago 4
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