Grey-capped Woodpecker (Dendrocopos canicapillus)
Order: PICIFORMES
Family: PICIDAE Woodpeckers
Scientific name: Dendrocopos canicapillus
English name: Grey-capped Woodpecker
Characteristic: Size 15 cm. Our smallest woodpecker of black-and-white colouration; its crown is grey; a black ear patch is present; upperpart black with white bands; underpart whitish streaked all over with black. A male has a small red patch at side of crown.
Distribution: Pakistan, China, Hainan, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Sumatra and Borneo.
Habitat: Inhabiting open forest, evergreen forest, secondary growths, scrub forest, from the plain to the high altitude of 1,800 m. It confines to dry dipterocarp forest in Sakaerat forest.
Habit: Seen mostly as a paired birds, foraging woodpecker-styled by climbing around tree trunks and branches and occasionally digging through the barks or breaking the barks for boring grubs, ants, termites, etc., and catching them with their long sticky togues. Sometimes observed feeding an soft-peeled fruits as ripe figs and also nectar. Breeding time occurs from March to May; its nest cavity is about 5-10 m. high, in which a female will lay a clutch of 4-5 white eggs. They need to be incubated for 12-13 days.
Status: A common resident in Sakaerat area. It has been legally protected as a protected wild animal.
