Morphologically, it is medium to small climbing birds with a body length of 20 to 25 cm. The male has red spots on the pillow and the female has black pillows. The mouth is pointed and stout, grey-black, and the tongue is longer. The top of the head is black from the top of the head to the back of the neck, and the forehead and eyes are brownish white from the front to the face. There is a black cheek stripe from the base of the mouth, which is connected to the black diagonal band that slopes from the occipital area to the larynx. The back is black and the shoulders are brownish white, forming two broad white longitudinal bands. The upper wing coverts are black, the underwings are off-white, and the flight feathers are black with white spots. The throat, side of the neck, thorax, and abdomen are brownish-white. The lower ventral to subtail coverts are red. The tail is hard , black , with white transverse spots on the outer tail feathers. Feet with all woodpeckers, two toes forward, two toes backwards, gray-black.
Its habits inhabit montane and plain woodlands, especially non-juvenile broad-leaved and mixed forests, but also occur at forest edges and urban gardens. Alone or in pairs, they feed on insects such as Coleoptera larvae by knocking on trees. The flight is large in waves, often making a sharp and loud sound. The breeding period is from April to June, the nest is in the tree hole pecked out by itself, and every year it re-pecks the hole to make a nest, and does not use the old nest. Common resident birds. It is widely distributed in the woodlands of Mount Taishan, urban areas, suburbs and Wenhe River basins.
Conservation status iucn:lc; terrestrial wild animals of important ecological, scientific and social value protected by the state.
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