Heart-spotted Woodpecker
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    Heart-spotted Woodpecker

    Hemicircus canente

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    Least Concern

    Quick Facts

    Mass0.043 kg

    Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).

    The heart-spotted woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker family. It has a contrasting black and white plumage, a distinctively stubby body and a large wedge-shaped head making it easy to identify while its frequent calling make it easy to detect as it forage for invertebrates under the bark of the slender outer branches of trees. They move about in pairs or small groups and are often found in mixed-species foraging flocks. They have a wide distribution across Asia with populations in the forests of southwestern and central India which are slightly separated from their ranges in the Himalayas and Southeast Asia.

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