The taman can truly turn out to be a woodpecker haven going by the now regular nesting of a species here, and the regular and irregular spotting of other species.
To date there are about 7 species of woodpeckers spotted here, namely the regularly seen common flameback, crimson-winged, rufous, banded, and the occasional collared, lace, and grey-capped pygmy woodpeckers, not bad at all for an urban park that can attract both forest and forest edge, even mangrove woodpeckers.
The latest occasional visitor which could yet become more regular is the Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Picoides canicapillus) of Least Concern status in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 2016.
It's one of the smallest woodpeckers at less than 14cm and can be found from garden to even highland (which is not to be mistaken with the almost similar looking sunda pygmy woodpecker that has brownish crown and conspicuous sub-moustache).
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