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Grey-capped Woodpecker
Yungipicus canicapillus · Family Picidae
Yungipicus canicapillus
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 129,274
- Countries and territories with records
- 21
About this species
This species has 129,274 occurrence records from 21 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Taiwan (57.2%), India (13.6%), China (13.3%), Thailand (6.8%) and Cambodia (1.9%); together they account for 92.8% of the total. In Taiwan, this species accounts for 0.35% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Yungipicus canicapillus combines the genus name Yungipicus with the species epithet canicapillus. The Warbla app catalog lists 7 species of the genus Yungipicus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Yungipicus kizuki, Yungipicus nanus and Yungipicus moluccensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 35th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 32.3% of the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.