Pale-headed woodpecker

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Pale-headed woodpecker
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Gecinulus
Species:
G. grantia
Binomial name
Gecinulus grantia
(Horsfield, 1840)

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]

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]

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.