Male (Black-naped) © Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok eBird S51696448 Macaulay Library ML 144880881
Female (Black-naped) © Nitin Chandra
Male (Gray-headed) © Ivan Sjögren
Female (Gray-headed) © Egor Vlasov
Male (Sumatran) © Agus Nurza
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Male (Black-naped) © Manish Panchal
Female (Gray-headed) © Craig Brelsford
Female (Gray-headed) © Henrik Thorlund
Male (Gray-headed) © Pavel Štěpánek

Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus

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Identification

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Distinctive medium-sized woodpecker with significant variation across its wide range. Always look for a gray face and thin black moustache stripe. Males have a red forehead patch, which females lack. Varies significantly across range: birds from northern Europe to northeastern Asia have pale gray heads and pale green wings; birds in the rest of mainland Asia average darker overall, with dark napes and crowns; Sumatran birds are dark rusty cinnamon overall. Favored habitats vary with range, including many wooded or semi-wooded habitats from lowlands up into the highlands. Most commonly heard calls a sharp, high-pitched “pik” and a descending series of whistled notes that speeds up, then slows.

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