星头啄木鸟是啄木鸟科、啄木鸟属的小型鸟类,体长14-18cm,额至头顶灰色或灰褐色,一宽阔的白色眉纹自眼后延伸至颈侧。雄鸟在枕部两侧各有一深红色斑,上体黑色,背部至腰和两翅呈黑白斑杂状,下体间杂黑色纵纹。主要栖息于山地和平原阔叶林、针阔叶混交林和针叶林中,常单独或成对活动,主要以昆虫为食,偶尔也吃植物果实和种子。 Star-headed woodpecker is a woodpecker, woodpecker is a small birds, body length 14-18cm, head to the top of the gray or gray-brown, a broad white eyebrow extends from the eye to the neck side. Male on both sides of the pillow have a dark red spots, upper body black, back to the waist and two wings were black and white spotted hybrid, black body vertical stripes under the hybrid. Mainly in the mountains and plains broad-leaved forest, coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest and coniferous forest, often alone or in pairs, the main food for insects, and occasionally eat plant fruits and seeds.