About Blythipicus pyrrhotis (Hodgson, 1837)
The bay woodpecker, with the scientific name Blythipicus pyrrhotis (Hodgson, 1837), is a mid-sized bird in the Picidae family, a group that also includes piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. It measures 26.5 to 30 cm (10.4 to 11.8 in) in body length, and the average adult has a weight between 126 and 170 g (4.4 to 6.0 oz). Males and females can be told apart by their physical traits: males have a brown crown, a short crest, streaking on the nape, and a pale brown forehead, while females have a shorter bill than males and a pale head with no red coloring on the neck. Bay woodpeckers inhabit evergreen and mixed deciduous forests, and are most often found in heavily wooded ravines with dense vegetation. They occupy a wide range of altitudes, from as low as 50 m up to 2750 m. Their distribution covers the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
