Yellow-crowned Woodpecker

The yellow-crowned woodpecker, or Mahratta woodpecker, is a small pied woodpecker of the Indian subcontinent and the only species in its genus. It is medium-small, 17.5 cm long and 28 to 46 g, and pale-headed. The upperparts are black, heavily spotted and barred white, the underparts dark and streaked dingy white with a red belly patch, with irregular brown cheek and neck patches. The male has a scarlet nape and yellow fore-crown, while the female has a yellowish crown and nape (Wikipedia, general species account).

It is closely related to the woodpeckers of the genus Dendrocoptes. Nationally Near Threatened (Sri Lanka National Red List 2012, listed as Dendrocopos mahrattensis).