The Yellow-crowned Woodpecker (Dendrocopos mahrattensis) or Mahratta woodpecker is a species of small pied woodpecker found in the Indian Subcontinent.

Medium-sized, pale-headed, pied woodpecker. Upperparts black, heavily spotted and barred white. Underparts dark, steaked dingy-withe with red belly patch. Irregular brown cheek and neck patches. Female has yellowish crown and nape. In male nape scarlet and fore-crown yellow.

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