Bearded Woodpecker (Dendropicos namaquus)

Other Scientific Names
Dendropicos namaquus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Chloropicus namaquus

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
23 - 25 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lichtenstein, 1793)

Habitat
Dry savanna. From sea-level - 3,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

Bearded Woodpecker (Chloropicus namaquus) [XC18857]
by Derek Solomon from Mahango, Namibia (call)

Bearded Woodpecker (Chloropicus namaquus) [XC622286]
by Marc Anderson from Hoedspruit, South Africa (drumming)

Subspecies
Subspecies knwon to intergrade.

Proposed subspecies saturatus (western Central African Republic) and decipiens (south-western Uganda and southern Kenya south to central Tanzania) inseparable from nominate.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

namaquus (Lichtenstein, 1793) - Western Central African Republic east to southern Sudan, Uganda and western and southern Kenya, and from western and southern Angola across to south-eastern Zaire and Tanzania, south to western and central Namibia, Botswana, northern South Africa and northern and central Mozambique.
schoensis (R�ppell, 1842) - Ethiopia, north-western and southern Somalia and northern Kenya.
coalescens (Clancey, 1958) - Central and southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Bearded Woodpecker (Dendropicos namaquus) - 10 files

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