Grey-headed Woodpecker

The grey-headed woodpecker is 25–26 centimetres long with a wingspan of 38–40 centimetres, weighing around 125 grams. The male of the nominate subspecies has a grey head with a red forecrown, a black line across the lores and a narrow black moustache stripe. The back, scapulars and wing coverts are green, the breast and underbody pale grey, and the folded primaries barred brown-black on grey-white. The female lacks the red forecrown but has fine black streaks on the crown. (Wikipedia, general species account)

Also called the grey-faced woodpecker, this is a Eurasian woodpecker, one of three closely related species found in Europe along with the European and Iberian green woodpeckers. Its distribution stretches across large parts of the central and eastern Palearctic all the way to the Pacific Ocean and south to the Himalaya and the Malay Peninsula. It is more demanding than the European green woodpecker in terms of habitat. The widely distributed jessoensis is slightly greyer and less green than the nominate form. (Wikipedia, general species account)