Maroon Woodpecker Blythipicus rubiginosus Scientific name definitions

23–24 cm; 64–92 g. Male has dull olive-brown head , paler feather tips on forehead, crimson tips on side of nape, often also of hindcrown and occasionally in malar region; upperparts brown with dull reddish-chestnut suffusion, a few obscure bars near bases of feathers, bars more numerous on rump and tail-coverts; wing-coverts dull brownish-red, often a few indistinct pale chevrons towards tips; flight-feathers dark brown, edged and tipped dull reddish, indistinct narrow buffish bars; uppertail dark brown, faintly barred slightly paler; throat dull brown, darker sooty-brown to blackish remaining underparts, sometimes a few reddish-tipped feathers on breast; underwing dull brown; long bill straight, chisel-tipped, broad across nostrils, pale yellow to yellowish-white or deeper yellow, dark greenish base; iris deep red or brownish-red, orbital skin blue; legs grey to blackish. Female has shorter bill, lacks crimson on head, often having dull reddish tinge on hindcrown and nape, sometimes barring on flight-feathers more prominent. Juvenile much as adult, but upperparts dull orangey rather than dull red, eyes brown, more red on crown, male with redder nape than adult.

S Myanmar (S Tenasserim) and SW Thailand S to Sumatra and Borneo.

Metallic “pit”, “pyick” or “kyuk” notes; sometimes double “kik kik” or “chikick”, second syllable markedly higher in pitch; also, wavering sequence of 6–14 higher-pitched call-note elements, “kik-kik-kik-kik-kik-kik”, slowing a little; loud descending series of 7–11 or more longer “chai” notes.