- Hemicircus concretus
Includes: Red-crested Woodpecker or Lilliput Woodpecker
Identification
13 cm; Tiny crested woodpecker with a short tail.
- crest pronounced
- head large, grey
- neck thin, grey
- underparts grey
- flanks barred buff
- mantle, wings strongly patterned black and buff or off-white due to dark centred, pale edged feathers
- primaries black
- tail short, rounded, black
Male
- forehead, crown and crest wholly or partly red (extent of red on crest subspecies dependent)
Female
- head wholly grey
Distribution
Asia: found in Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo.
Taxonomy
May be treated as 2 species, in which case subspecies sordidus elevated as "Grey-and-buff Woodpecker" (strict sense), H. sordidus, and concretus elevated as "Red-crested Woodpecker" [3] or "Lilliput Woodpecker" [4], H. concretus on the basis of differences in head colouration.
Subspecies
Clements lists the following subspecies [1]:
- H. c. sordidus: "Grey-and-buff Woodpecker". Southern Burma, peninsula Thailand to Sumatra, Borneo and adjacent islands. [Paler and hind neck whiter. Rear half of crest grey not red]
- H. c. concretus: "Red-crested Woodpecker". Western and central Java. [Darker. Whole crest red]
Habitat
Deep jungle, broadleaved evergreen forest, and forest edges.
Behaviour
Diet
Their diet consists mostly of insects, supplemented by fruits such as lime and mistletoe.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved May 2015)
- HBW and BirdLife International (2022) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds of the world. Version 7. Available at: http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/Species/Taxonomy/HBW-BirdLife_Checklist_v7_Dec22.zip
- Eaton, JA, B van Balen, NW Brickle, FE Rheindt 2021. Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago (Greater Sundas and Wallacea), Second Edition. Lynx Editions. ISBN978-84-16728-44-2
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Grey-and-buff Woodpecker. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 22 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Grey-and-buff_Woodpecker
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