Darjeeling Woodpecker

The Darjeeling woodpecker is a medium-sized pied woodpecker with yellow on the sides of the neck. It has black upperparts with large white scapular patches and white-barred flight feathers and tail sides. The male has a red nape patch, the cheeks are white with a long black moustache extending to the upper breast, and the underparts are yellow-buff streaked black with a red vent (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is found in the northern Indian subcontinent, primarily the Himalaya and adjoining areas, in Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Tibet, in subtropical or tropical moist lowland and montane forest. The cached account gives no measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Moderate conservation priority, a resident forest bird that eats invertebrates, with a Restricted range of about 26,500 km² (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).