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Smaller Woodpeckers
   
   

Fig 1 : Buff-necked Woodpecker - pair of females
 

Fig 2 : Buff-necked Woodpecker - male
  

Fig 3 : Grey-and-buff Woodpecker - male
  

Fig 4 : Rufous Woodpecker
  

Fig 5 : Rufous Piculet
  

Fig 6 : Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
    

Fig 1 :
Buff-necked Woodpecker - pair of females
Meiglyptes tukki
Location : Gunung Pulai, Johor, Peninsular Malaysia
Habitat : Lowland primary rainforest

Fig 2 :
Buff-necked Woodpecker - male
Meiglyptes tukki
Location : Ulu Kinta, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia
Habitat : Lowland mixed primary/secondary forest

Fig 3 :
Grey-and-buff Woodpecker - male
Hemicircus concretus
Location : Ulu Chepor, Perak, Peninsular Malaysia
Habitat : Lowland mixed primary/secondary forest

Fig 4 :
Rufous Woodpecker
Micropternus brachyurus
Location : West Coast, Singapore
Habitat : Lowland secondary forest

Fig 5 :
Rufous Piculet
Sasia abnormis
Location : Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo
Habitat : Lowland primary rainforest

Fig 6 :
Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
Yungipicus canicapillus
Location : Gua Kelam, Perlis, Peninsular Malaysia
Habitat : Mixed farmland / rubber plantations

Fig 7 :
Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
Yungipicus moluccensis
Location : Neo Tiew, Singapore
Habitat : Secondary scrub, wayside tree

Fig 8 :
Eurasian Wryneck
Jynx torquilla
Location : Bang Tabun, Phetchaburi province, Thailand.
Habitat : Linear scrub forest adjacent to freshwater lakes.
Note : Photo by
Charles Currin, November 2021

 

Fig 7 : Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
   
 
Fig 8 : Eurasian Wryneck
   

©  Charles Currin