PICIDAE
RUFOUS PICULET



Location : Ipoh, Perak
Date : ‎‎‎‎ ‎4 ‎January ‎2021

8–9.5 cm  Male abnormis: Yellowish forehead, pink eyering, greenish-olive above, rufous head/below.Female: Forehead rufous. Juvenile: Dull olive above (mantle washed slaty), brownish-slate below; dark bill. May show rufous on chin, belly and vent. VOICE High kik-ik-ik-ik-ik.. from male. Drums like White-browed. Sharp tic or tsit. HABITAT Bamboo, broadleaved evergreen forest, secondary growth; up to 1,370 m. RANGE Fc/c R south Tenasserim, S Thailand, Pen Malaysia.