Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Dendrocoptes > Dendrocoptes auricepsDendrocoptes auriceps (Brown-fronted Woodpecker)Synonyms: Dendrocopos auriceps; Dendrocopos auriceps auriceps; Dendrocopos auriceps incognitus; Leiopicus auriceps (homotypic) The brown-fronted woodpecker (Dendrocoptes auriceps) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It ranges across the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, primarily the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas. It is found in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Bhutan. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.35273 EDGE Score: 1.67761 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 40 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore | | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 70 % | | Diet - Seeds [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 20 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % | | | Clutch Size [3] | 4 | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 8 inches (20 cm) |
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Species |
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Baluchistan xeric woodlands |
Pakistan, Afghanistan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests |
India |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests |
India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Himalayan subtropical pine forests |
India, Bhutan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Coniferous Forests |
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Hindu Kush alpine meadow |
Afghanistan, Pakistan |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Mizoram-Manipur-Kachin rain forests |
Myanmar, India, Bangladesh |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands |
Bhutan, India, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests |
India, Pakistan, Nepal |
Indo-Malayan |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Himalaya |
Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan |
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Indo-Burma |
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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