Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, high altitude shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 2,300 m.

Range (Guide)

Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

Unknown to Central African Republic.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (35)...)

Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica) [XC750361]
by from Maiella (near Kongoni), Naivasha, Nakuru County, Kenya (call, flight call)

Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica) [XC293976]
by Peter Boesman from Wabe Shabelle Hotel, Langano, Ethiopia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera), Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) and Reichenow's Woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda), and sometimes all considered conspecific. Identity of birds in eastern Rwanda uncertain; they probably belong either to Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) or to nominate subspecies of Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica). Subspecies poorly differentiated, and they intergrade; delimitation uncertain, complicated by apparent habitat-conditioned variation of nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

nubica (Boddaert, 1783) - West-central and north-eastern Sudan, Ethiopia and north-western and south-western Somalia, south to north-eastern Zaire (Beni, Rutshuru Plain), adjacent western Uganda, Kenya and central and south-western Tanzania (Morogoro and Rukwa Valley); possibly this taxon in eastern Rwanda.
pallida (Sharpe, 1902) - Eastern and southern Somalia and coastal Kenya.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica) - 10 files

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