Picus chlorolophus

The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker, also known as the Lesser Yellownape, is a small bird with three subspecies.

The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is a jungle bird, mostly found in forests with higher terrain, and less common in plains. It often moves alone or in pairs, and is sometimes seen flying with other birds in broad-leaved forests. It mainly feeds on insects, and occasionally eats plant fruits and seeds.

The breeding season of the Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is from April to July. It nests in tree holes. Each nest lays 2-4 eggs. The eggs are white, oval, and 25-27 mm × 18-19 mm in size. The male and female take turns incubating the eggs, and the chicks mature late.

The distribution range of the Yellow-crowned Woodpecker is very large, and it is not close to the critical value of vulnerable and endangered species survival (distribution area or fluctuation range is less than 20,000 square kilometers, habitat quality, population size, and distribution area fragmentation). The population trend is stable, so it is evaluated as a species of least concern.

Listed in the "National List of Terrestrial Wildlife with Important Economic and Scientific Research Value" (Item 297) issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.

Listed in the "Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union" (IUCN) 2016 ver 3.1-Least Concern (LC).  

Listed in the second level of China's "National Key Protected Wildlife List" (February 5, 2021).

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Distribution in China: Distributed in Yunnan, southeastern Tibet, Guangxi, Fujian and Hainan Island.
Distribution in the world: Distributed in China, India, Myanmar, Indochina, Thailand and Sumatra.
The yellow-crowned woodpecker mainly inhabits evergreen broad-leaved forests and mixed forests below 2,000 meters above sea level, and also appears in bamboo forests and forest edge shrubs.

The male yellow-crowned woodpecker has a red or olive-green forehead, black nose feathers to the top of the eyes, olive-green top and sides of the neck, and a golden-yellow feather crest on the pillow. The front end of a slender red eyebrow line is connected to the red color of the forehead, and the back end is connected to the golden pillow crown. There is a white or yellow-white cheek stripe from under the eye to the side of the neck, the jaw stripe is red, and the ear feathers and the side of the neck are the same color. The upper body is light yellowish-green and shiny, the wings are brown, the first two flight feathers have inconspicuous white horizontal spots on the outside, and the remaining flight feathers are chestnut red on the outside. The edges are slightly decorated with brown, and the green of the flight feathers gradually increases inward until it is the same color as the back. The tail is dark brown, with a copper-green or olive-green narrow edge on the central tail fea