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Dendrocopos cathpharius
Photo by MissNokHook
Location: Doi Lang, Thailand
Photo by MissNokHook
Location: Doi Lang, Thailand

Identification

18cm.

Distribution

Himalayas of Nepal to northwestern Indochina.

Taxonomy

Sometimes merged into Picoides. Most closely related to D. darjellensis and probably more distantly to the D. macei superspecies. Six subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

cathpharius (Blyth, 1843) - WC Nepal E to Arunachal Pradesh. ludlowi (Vaurie, 1959) - SE Tibet (S Tsangpo Valley). pyrrhothorax (Hume, 1881) - NE India S of R Brahmaputra (Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram) and W Myanmar (W of R Chindwin).

Habitat

Cloud forests and lowland moist forests.

Behaviour

References

Wikipedia

External Links

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