The brown-capped pygmy woodpecker or Indian pygmy woodpecker (''Yungipicus nanus'') is a species of very small

woodpecker Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar region ...

found in

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

and

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

. Some taxonomic authorities continue to place this species in the genus ''

Dendrocopos ''Dendrocopos'' is a widespread genus of woodpeckers from Asia, Europe and Northern Africa. The species range from the Philippines to the British Isles. Taxonomy The genus ''Dendrocopos'' was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludw ...

'' or '' Picoides''.

Description

A small brown and white woodpecker with distinctive pink-rimmed white irises. Barred brown and white above, lightly streaked dirty white below. Tail spotted white. Paler brown crown (edged red in male) and eyestripes contrasting with white supercilia and cheeks.

Gallery

File:Brown-capped Pygmy Wooppecker (Dendrocopos nanus) in Kawal WS, AP W IMG 2086.jpg, Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary,

. File:Brown-capped Pygmy Wooppecker (Dendrocopos nanus) in Kawal WS, AP W IMG 2084.jpg, Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker in Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary,

. File:Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker, Haldwani, Uttarakhand.jpg, alt=Picture taken in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India, left, Brown-capped pygmy woodpecker in Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India

References

brown-capped pygmy woodpecker Birds of South Asia brown-capped pygmy woodpecker Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{woodpecker-stub