Rufous-bellied Woodpecker

The rufous-bellied woodpecker, or rufous-bellied sapsucker, is 19–23 cm long. The male has a red crown and the female a black crown speckled with white. Both sexes have a black mantle and back and black wings barred white, and a black upper tail with some white barring on the outer feathers. The face is white and the throat and underparts are a uniform cinnamon or rufous (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is found along the Himalaya in the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast Asia, across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea and Manchuria. Its tongue has a brushy tip that lets it feed on sap. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident and altitudinal migrant of forest that eats invertebrates, with a Moderate range and insufficient data on trends (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).