Stripe-breasted Woodpecker

The stripe-breasted woodpecker is 21 to 22cm long and found in Southeast Asia in subtropical or tropical moist lowland and montane forest. The upperparts are black heavily barred with white, the crown and nape red in the male and black in the female. The face is whitish with a black moustache that joins a stripe on the edge of the breast, the underparts are greyish-yellow boldly streaked black, and the undertail coverts are red (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its altitudinal range is about 800 to 2,800m, mostly above 2,000m. It feeds in the mid to upper canopy on insects, particularly ants and beetle larvae, often in pairs or small family groups. Breeding is from March to May in India, the nest excavated in a rotten stump or tree well above the ground, with four or five eggs. The account opened does not name Bhutan.