Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker

How to identify

Field marks

1. Black upperparts with heavy white barring
2. Red under the tail
3. Tawny-yellow breast and belly, with faint barring on the flanks
4. Whitish cheeks partly bordered by black lines

Male, female and young

The male has a red crown and orange forehead; the female has a black crown.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: February · Most records: India, Nepal, Bangladesh

Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker has been recorded at 161 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 7 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Wildlife Institute of IndiaIndia581 records
2. Rabindra SarovarIndia368 records
3. Forest Research Institute (FRI), New Forest CampusIndia356 records

Countries and regions with the most records

IndiaNepalBangladeshBhutanPakistanChinaMyanmar (Burma)

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

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