Olive Woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus)

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

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Boddaert, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest, lowland moist shrubland. From 450 - 3,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Namibia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (38)...)

Olive Woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus) [XC779399]
by Charles Hesse from H40, Mbona Private Nature Reserve, Karkloof, uMgungundlovu District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (call, flight call, song)

Olive Woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus) [XC339146]
by Louis A. Hansen from Mutinondo Wilderness area, Northern Province, Zambia (song)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Grey Woodpecker (Dendropicos goertae) and Grey-headed Woodpecker (Dendropicos spodocephalus), interbreeding where ranges meet.

Proposed subspecies persimilis (Angola to northern Malawi) inseparable from ruwenzori.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

ruwenzori (Sharpe, 1902) - Angolan highlands, and eastern Zaire and south-western Uganda (Ruwenzoris and Impenetrable Forest), south to north-central and north-eastern Namibia, south-central Zambia and northern Malawi.
kilimensis (Neumann, 1926) - Tanzanian highlands: Mt Kilimanjaro, Mt Meru, and mountains of northern Pare, Usambara, Uluguru and Udzungwa.
griseocephalus (Boddaert, 1783) - Extreme southern Mozambique (Lebombo Mts) and eastern and southern South Africa (eastern Natal to southern Cape Province).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Olive Woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus) - 10 files

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