Speckled Piculet

The speckled piculet has an olive-green back, two white stripes on the side of the head and a dark green band near the eye. The male has orange and brown on the forecrown, and the underparts are creamy white with black spots. It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, across Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam, and in India in the Himalayan foothills up to about 2,500 m (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its diet consists of ants and termites. The cached account gives no measurements or breeding information. SoIB 2023 rates it a Low conservation priority, a resident forest bird that eats invertebrates, with a Large range of about 264,000 km² and a stable long-term trend (Wikipedia, general species account; SoIB 2023).