Common Flameback

Dinopium javanense

Family: Woodpeckers · Status: Very common resident · Size: 28–30 cm · Conservation: Least Concern

Range

Resident across southwest and northeast India to southern China, through Indochina, the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and parts of Borneo.

Identification

Male has golden upperparts with crimson rump, reddish crown with pointed crest, black hindneck, eyestripe and submoustachial stripe, and scaled underparts dense at the breast and gradually more disparate towards the vent. Female has black crown with fine white streaks. Juvenile has blacker breast with less scaling on lower belly. Distinguished from Greater Flameback by dark iris, smaller bill, black hind neck, and different face pattern with more white on face.

Habitat

Forest edge, secondary growth, gardens, parks, mangroves and wooded areas.