Bearded Woodpecker (Chloropicus) [XC468702]
by Peter Woodall from Koster, Bojanala, North West, South Africa (drumming)
Bearded Woodpecker (Chloropicus namaquus) [XC234944]
by Lynette Rudman from Buffalo Springs and Samburu Reserves, Isiolo, Kenya (call, song)
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 (Rüppell, 1842) - Ethiopia, north-western and southern Somalia and northern Kenya.
coalescens (Clancey, 1958) - Central and southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa.