Black-headed Woodpecker

The black-headed woodpecker is a medium-sized green woodpecker about 33 cm long and weighing 100–135 g. Adults have a black face, yellow throat, green wings, red lower back and pale belly. The eye is whitish to yellow, and some birds show a narrow pale line running behind it. Males have a red crown, while females have an entirely black crown. The Indochinese form has a pale bill, unlike the dark-billed western subspecies (Winkler and Christie 2020, as reported on Wikipedia).

Restricted to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, it inhabits dry deciduous, semi-evergreen, riverine, savanna and coniferous forest, mainly in the middle storey and subcanopy. Birds glean bark for termites, ants and other invertebrates and often join mixed-species flocks, where shared alarm calling may reduce time spent watching for predators. Their loud, laughing series of yelps carries far through open forest. Pairs nest in tree cavities and lay three or four eggs (Winkler and Christie 2020; Limparungpatthanakij et al. 2019, as summarised on Wikipedia).