Common Flameback

The Common Flameback (Dinopium javanense), also referred to as the common golden back, is a small (28–30 cm), three-toed woodpecker in the family Picidae, found throughout South and Southeast Asia. As strict insectivores, their main diet consists of mainly ants as those are the most prevalent, however, they are known to hawk slow-flying insects out of the air and glean other tree-crawling invertebrates.

Men have a brilliant red crest, while females have a black crest with white streaks. This is one of the main visual differences between males and females. Both sexes have a black bottom with white and black spots, a white supercilium, a white cheek stripe, and a white throat region that are all divided by black stripes. The smaller bill and black nape set the bird apart from other similar golden-backed woodpeckers like the greater flame back (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus), while its red rump and white neck set it out from the black-rumped flame back. The greatest method to tell the Himalayan flame back from the common flame back, which is a virtually identical species, is by listening to its loud, high-pitched call, which sounds like a sequence of "kow-kowp" rattles.