Rufous-bellied Woodpecker

How to identify

Field marks

1. White face; throat and underparts uniformly cinnamon-rufous
2. Black back; black wings with white barring
3. Black lower belly with white barring; red or pink undertail-coverts
4. Black upper mandible, gray lower mandible and gray or olive legs and feet

Male, female and young

The male has a red crown; the female has a black crown with fine white spots.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: May · Most records: China, India, Cambodia

Rufous-bellied Woodpecker has been recorded at 243 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 10 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. PangotIndia558 records
2. TmatboeyCambodia377 records
3. Dochula – Royal Botanical ParkBhutan183 records

Countries and regions with the most records

ChinaIndiaCambodiaBhutanMyanmar (Burma)NepalVietnamThailand

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

About

The rufous-bellied woodpecker or rufous-bellied sapsucker (Dendrocopos hyperythrus) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. This woodpecker has a habit of making a series of small pits on the bark of trees leading to its being considered an Asiatic member of the sapsuckers in the past. It is found along the Himalayas in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, ranging across Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong (China), India, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Manchuria, Ussuriland and Vietnam.

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