New record of birds in Longling County, Yunnan! The woodpecker appears

Spotted Woodpecker Yang Jiqiang Photo

Recently, Yang Jiqiang, a bird watcher in Longling County, Baoshan City, recorded a bird when he photographed the area around the Little Black Mountain Conservation Area. Zeng Wei, a technician at the Kunming Survey and Design Institute of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, identified it as a woodpecker.

The discovery of the spotted woodpecker has added a new member to the bird family of Longling County, which is also the seventh time since 2021 that the Longling Little Black Mountain Reserve has discovered a new record of wildlife in the county since the discovery of crowned hornbills, yellow-footed squirrels, striped-breasted woodpeckers, crested wheat chickens, ants and magpies.

Picumnus innominatus is a vertebrate, ornithischia, order thrush, and woodpecker. It is characterized by many black spots on the lower body, black and white stripes on the face and tail, and orange-yellow forehead of the male. The dorsal to tail coverts are olive green, the wings are dark brown, the outer edge is stained yellow-green, the wing margins are nearly white, and the tail feathers are black. The iris is brown or reddish brown, and the mouth and feet are lead brown or grayish black.

It inhabits low hills below 2000 m above sea level and in evergreen or deciduous broad-leaved forests, mixed middle-mountain forests and coniferous forests, and prefers to move and feed in open sparse forests, bamboo forests and forest margin shrublands, feeding mainly on ants, beetles and other insects. It is mainly distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, southeastern Tibet, southern Gansu, southern Shaanxi and southern Henan, and mainly distributed in Longling County, Yunnan Province, in the Small Black Mountain Reserve and surrounding areas.

The woodpecker has been included in the List of Beneficial or Economically Important Scientific Research Terrestrial Wild Animals Protected by the State (State Forestry Administration, 2000) and the Red List of Vertebrates of China (Jiang Zhigang et al., 2016) – non-threatened (LC) species.

According to the "Report on Biodiversity and Evaluation of longling little black mountain provincial nature reserve" (Kunming Survey and Design Institute of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, 2020) and the new record of birds recently observed, the birds of the woodpecker family of longling little black mountain reserve are known to be dendrocopos canicapillus, gray-headed green woodpecker (Picus canus), and large gold-backed woodpecker (Chrysocolaptes lucidus), There are 6 species: Blythipicus pyrrhotis, Dendrocopos atratus and Jynx torquilla. The discovery of the Woodpecker has increased the number of woodpeckers in the Little Black Mountain Reserve from 6 to 7 species.

Yunnan Network reporter Zhao Lihuai correspondent Yu Yunjiang Zeng Wei Feng Siqin