Bennett's woodpecker

Bennett's woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Campethera
Species: C. bennettii
Binomial name
Campethera bennettii
(Smith, 1836)
Global range     Year-Round Range     Summer Range     Winter Range

The Bennett's woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British naturalist Edward Turner Bennett.[2]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Campethera bennettii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 48.

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