• Dinopium is commonly known as Golden- backed woodpecker.

• It is a small bird and is about 22 cm in length.

• The bill is long, stout and pointed.

• The entire crown and occipital crest is crimson in male only partly so in the female.

• The tail is stiff and wedge shaped.

• Food chiefly comprises wood- boring beetles, grubs, ants and other insects injurious to trees.