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Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker

Dinopium benghalense

हिन्दी: सुनहरा कठफोड़वा

IUCN: Least Concern
Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker (Dinopium benghalense) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Uttarakhand · Resized

Scientific name
Dinopium benghalense
Hindi name
सुनहरा कठफोड़वा
Family
Picidae, order Piciformes
Group
Bird
Conservation status
Least Concern

A golden drummer tapping the tree for lunch.

  • Spot it Golden-yellow back, red crest on the male, spotted black throat.
  • Home Open woodland, gardens and roadside trees.
  • Food web Eats ants, termites and grubs from bark.
  • Why it matters Eats ants and borers, helping protect trees, and the holes it makes are later used by other birds.

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Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • IndiaDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2011, in Uttarakhand.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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