A Bird That Doesn’t Wear His Heart On His Wings, He Wears Them On His Wings!
An oversized crest makes the head look too large for their short body and equally short tail, on a bird that wears his heart on his wings, writes onebigbirdcage.
MEET THE HEART-SPOTTED WOODPECKER
The heart-spotted woodpecker (Hemicircus canente), is a species of bird in the woodpecker family. Predominantly black, this bird wears a large crest on his head, with heart-shaped black spots on white wing shoulders. They also have broad white scapular patches and bold barring on their flight feathers.
His throat is white and his belly a dark olive-grey.
The female looks very similar to the male, though she can be distinguished by wearing a white crown and forehead, while the males is black.
These birds are found in the Himalayan forests of India, extending down into Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. In India, they can also be found in the Western Ghats and forests in central regions of the country.
The heart-spotted woodpecker prefers to live in subtropical, and tropical moist lowland forests where they like to forage on thin branches, feeding on insects that live under the bark. They have also been known to peck into the pods of Cassia fistula, and fig fruit to eat insect larvae.
During the breeding season, heart-spotted woodpeckers build a nest that is bored into a dead branch with a tight 3 to 4 cm opening. A tunnel is drilled down about 20cm before opening into a chamber. Nests are sometimes built into fence posts. A clutch of 2 to 3 eggs is laid, which are unmarked white in color.
Due to their large range, heart-spotted woodpeckers have, their population does not approach the criteria to be under significant threat, though it is declining in some areas due to habitat loss, and fragmentation.
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This story originally appeared on onebigbirdcage.com
