The fulvous-breasted woodpecker (Dendrocopos macei) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.[2] It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar.[3] The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly considered conspecific with this species.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendrocopos |
| Species: | D. macei
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| Binomial name | |
| Dendrocopos macei (Vieillot, 1818)
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Description
editA medium-sized, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily barred white. Undertail red, breast and belly buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. Withish cheeks partly bordered by black line. Crown red in male with orange forehead, black in female.
Habitat
editIts natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
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References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Dendrocopos macei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22726376A94920427. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726376A94920427.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Fuchs, Jérôme; Ohlson, Jan I.; Ericson, Per G. P.; Pasquet, Eric (2007). "Synchronous intercontinental splits between assemblages of woodpeckers suggested by molecular data". Zoologica Scripta. 36 (1): 11–25. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00267.x. ISSN 0300-3256. S2CID 84724528.
- ^ Sivaperuman, C.; Venkataraman, K. (2012). Abundance and Species Distribution of Bird Communities in Ritchie's Archipelago, Andaman and Nicobar Islands. pp. 273–288. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-28335-2_18. ISBN 978-3-642-28334-5.
External links
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