Melancholy woodpecker
| Melancholy woodpecker | |
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| Illustration (right) with Gabon woodpecker (in front) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendropicos |
| Species: | D. lugubris |
| Binomial name | |
| Dendropicos lugubris Hartlaub, 1857 | |
The melancholy woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) is a species of woodpecker. It is found in Africa from Sierra Leone east to Nigeria. It is often considered to be a subspecies of Gabon woodpecker, Dendropicos gabonensis, but here it is treated as a separate species following the Handbook of the Birds of the World.
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In Kakum National Park, Ghana
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