Gray-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus)

About Gray-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
• Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers

The grey-headed woodpecker, also known as the grey-faced woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family, Picidae. Along with the more commonly found European green woodpecker and the Iberian green woodpecker, it is one of three closely related species found in Europe. Its distribution also stretches across large parts of the central and Eastern Palaearctic, all the way to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Himalaya and the Malay Peninsula.