Grey-Capped Woodpecker Picoides/Dendrocopos canicapillus (Blyth) 1845
Grey-Capped
Woodpecker Picoides/Dendrocopos canicapillus (Blyth) 1845
Other
Name: Gray Headed Pygmy Woodpecker, Grey Crowned Pygmy.
Resident
Status and
distribution
Resident
uncommon distributed south to Johore. Less common then Sunday Pygmy Woodpecker
Description
Gray Capped Woodpecker
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Brown capped Woodpecker
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Other name
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see above
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Sunda woodpecker, Malaysia Woodpecker
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Upperpart
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Black, wings, lower back and rumped black broadly barred with white
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Browner with white barred
Generally sooty compared to black of Gray Capped
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Underpart
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Lack of red on streaked brownish
buff to black
Belly buffish-orange
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Dirty white below with brown streak
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Tail
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Central tail feather lack of white bar
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Central tail feather always white
barred
Rump and upper tail covert white
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Head
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Crown gray, malar stripe usually
faint or lacking.
Broad dark patch on ear covert
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Brown crown, white unmarked throat, broad distinct malar stripe
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Sex
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Male: Small red streak on side of
hind crown
Female: Average slightly larger
than male. Red of male’s crown sides and naped replace by black
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Male: Red streak behind eye
Female: Slightly larger than male. Lack of red on hindcrown
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Bare part: Bill
grey to blackish, paler at base and on lower mandible. Greyish to olive grey
feet and leg. Orbital skin slaty.
Confusion
Species
See description
Geographical
Variation
According to
Well’s 1990 subspecies auratus Eyton 1845 was recorded. However the subspecies
may not be confidently separated in field.
Behaviour
At least in this
part of the P.Malaysia mostly were seen in pair. Otherwise poorly documented. Diet poorly
documented.
Habitat
Park and garden.
Housing area which is wooded. Separated in habitat from Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
where the latter are found in mangrove <= => Grey Capped Woodpecker
absent in mangrove. Plantation, secondary growth and coastal woodland
(casuarina).
Have been
recorded up to 1830m asl in other part of the world
Note: Overlap
with Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker especially in park area.
Breeding
Very similar to
Sunda Pygmy where nested in rotten-tip wood. Breeding begin in February -
September. No recent record on this species nesting in recent years and poorly
documented overall.
Photo
Reference
Ben F.King & Edwards C.Dickson, 1989, A Field Guide To The
Birds of South-East Asia, Collins, Grafton Street, London
Boonsong Lekagul & Philip D.Round, 1991, A guide to the
Birds of Thailand, Saha Karn Bhaet Co., Ltd Bangkok
David R Wells, 1999, Birds of The Thai Malay Peninsula,Academic
Press, London UK
Hans Winkler, David A. Christie & David Nurney, 1995, Woodpecker
An Identification Guide to the Woodpecker of the World, Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston New York
James A. Eaton, Bas van Balen, Nick W. Brickle & Frank E. Rheindt,
2016, Birds of the Indonesia Archipelago Greater Sundas and
Wallacea, Lynx Edicion, Bercelona
Salim Ali & S. Dillon Ripley, 2001, Handbook of the
Birds of India and Pakistan Volume 4 Frogmouth to Pittas,Oxford University
Press , New Delhi
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