PICIDAE

WHITE-BELLIED WOODPECKER

Location : Selangor 
Date :  29 January 2022

40 cm Male feddeni: Large size, black and white plumage, red crown, crest and submoustachial band.Female: Red on head restricted to hindcrown. Juvenile: Duller with paler throat; male with black-mottled forecrown, smaller red submoustachial. Other subspecies D.j.forresti (N Myanmar, north W Tonkin): 43.5–47 cm. D.j.javensis (S Thailand southwards): Black rump (juvenile may show some white). VOICE Staccato kek-ek-ek-ek-ek and kiau-kiau-kiau. Loud accelerating drums (both sexes). Explosive keer or kyah. HABITAT Broadleaved forests, locally coniferous forest, mangroves. Up to 915 m (to 1,450 m S Annam); above 1,525 m N Myanmar and north W Tonkin. RANGE Sc/lfc R (except C Thailand, N Laos, E Tonkin, N Annam); rare Singapore.