Japanese green woodpecker [SEP] parent taxon
Japanese green woodpecker
Japanese green woodpecker or Japanese woodpecker ("Picus awokera") is a medium-sized woodpecker similar and closely related to the European green woodpecker, but endemic to Japan.
This species reaches about 30 cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the green woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings.
The Japanese green woodpecker is divided into at least
woodpecker
- Robust woodpecker
- Crimson-crested woodpecker
- Pale-billed woodpecker
- Guayaquil woodpecker
- Cream-backed woodpecker
- Magellanic woodpecker
- Ivory-billed woodpecker
- Imperial woodpecker
- Banded woodpecker
- Checker-throated woodpecker
- Greater yellownape
- Lesser yellownape
- Crimson-winged woodpecker
- Streak-breasted woodpecker
- Laced woodpecker
- Streak-throated woodpecker
- Scaly-bellied woodpecker
- Japanese green woodpecker
- European green woodpecker
- Iberian