Piciformes / Picidae / Chrysophlegma
Greater Yellownape
Chrysophlegma flavinucha · 大黄冠啄木鸟
Introduction
A species in the woodpecker family Picidae, found in East Asia from northern and eastern India to south-eastern China, Indochina, Hainan, and Sumatra. Natural habitats include subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Description
Large, olive green woodpecker with a prominent yellow-crested nape and throat. Features dark olive green upperparts, grey underparts, and a brownish crown. Flight feathers are chestnut barred with black. The bill often appears whitish.
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Taxonomy
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Chrysophlegma
Subspecies (8)
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Chrysophlegma flavinucha flavinucha
foothills from central Nepal to northeastern and eastern India (south to Odisha and northern Andhra Pradesh) and eastward to Myanmar, southern China (southern Sichuan and Yunnan), and northern Vietnam
Data Sources
Species description from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.
