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PLEASE! If you see any mistakes, I'm 100% sure that I have wrongly identified some birds.
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
So please let me know on my guestbook at the bottom of the page
  The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Leiopicus mahrattensis) or Mahratta Woodpecker is a species of small pied Woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent.   Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
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Taxonomy The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Picus mahrattensis. The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended that the genera Leiopicus and Dendrocoptes and are combined into a larger Dendropicos. Some taxonomists place this species in the genus Dendrocopos. Description Medium-sized, pale-headed, pied Woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, streaked dingywithe with red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow. Listen to the Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
Sound from www.xeno-canto.org
 Conservation status
 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2016: e.T22681092A92892393.
doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681092A92892393.en. Retrieved 15 January 2018. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use) 18th of May 2017 Location: Yala National Park - Block 1, Sri Lanka  Yellow-crowned Woodpecker or Mahratta Woodpecker
20 May 2017 - Yala National Park, Block 1, Sri Lanka  Yellow-crowned Woodpecker or Mahratta Woodpecker
20 May 2017 - Yala National Park, Block 1, Sri Lanka  Yellow-crowned Woodpecker or Mahratta Woodpecker
20 May 2017 - Yala National Park, Block 1, Sri Lanka  Yellow-crowned Woodpecker or Mahratta Woodpecker
20 May 2017 - Yala National Park, Block 1, Sri Lanka PLEASE! If I have made any mistakes identifying any bird, PLEASE let me know on my guestbook 
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