Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker

Picoides tridactylus tianschanicus (Buturlin, 1907)

		male
2012-09-16 Kimasar gorge. Ile-Alatau National Park.	© Askar Isabekov

Description

Darker than tridactylus. White on mantle is less developed than in tridactylus. Black ‘moustache’, black streaks on breast-flanks and black cross-pattern on belly-flanks are more expressed than tridactylus; outer tail feathers have more expressed white pattern than in tridactylus.

Distribution

Lives in Tien Shan and Dzhungar Alatau.

References

"Птицы Казахстана" том 3. "Наука". Алма-Ата, 1970. Э.И.Гаврилов. "Фауна и распространение птиц Казахстана". Алматы, 1999. Gavrilov E. I., Gavrilov A. E. "The Birds of Kazakhstan". Almaty, 2005.