The starheaded Woodpecker, Yungipicus canicapillus and Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker, has 15 subspecies.
Star-headed woodpeckers often live alone or in pairs, only appearing in family groups after the nest with young. Most of the activities and feeding in the upper part of the tree, but also occasionally to the ground and trees on the stump to feed. Flying fast, in a wave. It feeds mainly on longiceps, silverfish, ants, bug elephants, golden-flower worms, beetles, and other coleoptera and lepidoptera insects, and occasionally on plant fruits and seeds. The cry is a sharp trill。
The breeding season of the star-headed woodpecker is from April to June. In mid-to-late March, they began to pair up and chase each other, flying and Shouting. The nest is on the rotten trunk of the heartwood, the nest is higher, and the height from the ground is generally 3-15 meters. Both male and female birds peck at the nest hole. The hole is round, the diameter is 4.2-4.5 cm, the inner diameter of the hole is 11-12 cm, and there is no inner cushion in the hole. Each clutch lays 4-5 eggs, the eggs are white, oval, the size of 18-21 mm ×13-15 mm, male and female birds take turns incubating eggs, incubation period 12-13 days. Young birds are late sex.
It was included in the List of Beneficial Terrestrial Wildlife under State Protection or of Important economic and scientific research Value issued by the State Forestry Administration of China on August 1, 2000.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2012 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).
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