Fulvous-breasted Woodpecker

The fulvous-breasted woodpecker is a medium-sized pied woodpecker of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India and Myanmar. The upperparts are black, heavily barred white, the undertail is red, and the breast and belly are buff with light flank barring and slight side streaking. The whitish cheeks are partly bordered by a black line, and the crown is red in the male, with an orange forehead, and black in the female. The freckle-breasted woodpecker was formerly treated as the same species (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, moist lowland forest and moist montane forest. The cached account is short and gives no measurements, diet or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird that eats invertebrates, with a Large range of about 306,000 km² (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).