Splendid woodpecker
| Splendid woodpecker | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Campephilus |
| Species: | C. splendens |
| Binomial name | |
| Campephilus splendens | |
The splendid woodpecker (Campephilus splendens) is a bird in the Picidae family formerly considered conspecific with the crimson-bellied woodpecker (Campephilus haematogaster). It is found in western and north-western Ecuador, south-western and western Colombia and eastern and northern Panama. Favoured habitats are humid and wet forest or montane forest from lowlands to 1,600 metres.[1]