Streak-throated woodpecker
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| image = Streak Throated Woodpecker (7554092814).jpg
| image2 = Picus xanthopygaeus - Streak-throated Woodpecker XC509720.mp3
| image2_caption = Male bird in Corbett National Park and a sound recording from Tamil Nadu, India
| genus = Picus
| species = xanthopygaeus
| authority = (Gray, JE & Gray, GR, 1847)
| synonyms = Picus myrmecophoneus
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The streak-throated woodpecker (Picus xanthopygaeus) is a species of woodpecker found in the Indian subcontinent. It occurs in drier woodland, from lowland to the foothills of mountains.
Description
A medium-sized, green woodpecker with streaked throat and scaly whitish underparts. Green above with yellowish rump, white supercilia and white and black moustache. Crown red in male, blackish in female. Tail dark and plain. Smallish, dark bill.
Similar species
The streak-breasted woodpecker has pale eyes, denser underpart streaking, and a thinner pale moustache stripe. The laced woodpecker has less underpart streaking and a warm yellowish hue all over the neck. The scaly-bellied woodpecker has streaked belly feathers, but unstreaked breast and throat plumage.
Small Snack.jpg|male feeding on termites at Nagarhole National Park in Karnataka
Streak-throatted Woodpecker @ Nilambur.jpg|female at Nilambur in Kerala
Streak-throated Woodpecker (Female).jpg|dorsal view of a female in western Tamil Nadu
Streak-throated Woodpecker AMSM6495.jpg|male at Kaziranga National Park in Assam
References
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