Gabon woodpecker
| Gabon woodpecker | |
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| Illustration (left) with melancholy woodpecker | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendropicos |
| Species: | D. gabonensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendropicos gabonensis (Verreaux & Verreaux, 1851) | |
The Gabon woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda.
The form lugubris, breeding from Sierra Leone east to Nigeria, is sometimes split (e.g. by Handbook of the Birds of the World) as a separate species, the melancholy woodpecker, Dendropicos lugubris.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Dendropicos gabonensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.