The pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a bamboo specialist,[2][3] and a montane bird.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Gecinulus |
| Species: | G. grantia
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| Gecinulus grantia (Horsfield, 1840)
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A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2017 found that the pale-headed woodpecker was embedded within the genus Dinopium and was a sister species to the olive-backed woodpecker (Dinopium rafflesii).[5]
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Gecinulus grantia". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22681525A92909573. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681525A92909573.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Srinivasan, Sidharth; Biswakarma, Aman; Pradhan, D.K.; Rai, Shambu; Srinivasan, Umesh (2023-10-10). "Bamboozling Interactions: Interspecific associations within mixed-species bird flocks in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya". doi:10.1101/2023.10.08.561415. S2CID 263910717. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ Srinivasan, Sidharth; Biswakarma, Aman; Pradhan, D.K.; Rai, Shambu; Srinivasan, Umesh (2023-01-29). "Poles apart: the structure and composition of the bird community in bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya". doi:10.1101/2023.01.27.525938. S2CID 256417726. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
- ^ Zhao, Min; Chang, Yongbin; Kimball, Rebecca T.; Zhao, Jian; Lei, Fumin; Qu, Yanhua (2018-11-28). "Pleistocene glaciation explains the disjunct distribution of the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch (Aves, Sittidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 48 (1): 33–45. doi:10.1111/zsc.12327. ISSN 0300-3256.
- ^ Shakya, S.B.; Fuchs, J.; Pons, J.M.; Sheldon, F.H. (2017). "Tapping the woodpecker tree for evolutionary insight". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116: 182–191. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.005. PMID 28890006.
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