female Yellow-crowned or Mahratta woodpecker,(dendrocopus mahrattensis),with insect food,Keoladeo Ghana National Park, India

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The Yellow-crowned woodpecker was originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801 under the binomial name Picus mahrattensis. The taxonomic committee of the British Ornithologists' Union have recommended an alternative arrangement in which the genera Leiopicus and Dendrocoptes and are combined into a larger Dendropicos.

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Location: Keoladeo Ghana National Park,Bharatpur,Rajasthan,India
Photo credit: © Dominic Robinson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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