Buff-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera nivosa)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
14 - 16 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Swainson, 1837)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (10)...)

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera nivosa) [XC739477]
by id from The Neck, Bwindi NP, Kinkiizi, Kanungu, Western Region, Uganda (call)

Buff-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera nivosa) [XC718938]
by Gabriel A. Jamie from Atewa Range, Sagyimase, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Subspecies maxima, known only from 2 specimens from northern Ivory Coast, doubtfully valid, possibly only larger form of nominate. Latter intergrades with subspecies herberti, the resultant intermediates formerly known as subspecies efulenensis; yalensis (western Kenya) synonymized with herberti.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

nivosa (Swainson, 1837) - Senegambia east to Cameroon and western Zaire and south to north-western Angola and north-western Zambia.
maxima Traylor, 1970 - Northern Ivory Coast.
poensis Alexander, 1903 - Bioko I (Fernando P�o).
herberti (Alexander, 1908) - Southern Central African Republic and extreme south-western Sudan (Bangangai Forest) to western Kenya (Kakamega and southern Nandi Forests) and south to south-central and eastern Zaire.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Buff-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera nivosa) - 10 files

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