Woodpeckers have always fascinate me in terms of their bright plumage and peculiar behaviors. Crimson-winged woodpeckers are fairly common woodpeckers one could find along the jungle trails up to a height of 825 m. Locally named as "Belatok Emas" and IUCN has listed them as "Least Concern". They are said to liked insects and larvaes. Here are two males - one is a juvenile taken from a recent trip at Sungai Perdik, Hulu Langat, Selangor, West Malaysia.
Male species of these woodpeckers have red crowns and red submoustachial. Although this bird has no red crown but it has a red submoustachial which is absence in female birds of this species. This fellow is probably a juvenile male.
These two pictures above show the adult male is teaching the juve male to find for food, i guess.
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