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 LC    Golden-crowned Woodpecker* Id (Atlas):
    Dendropicos xantholophus

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Dendropicos xantholophus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Chloropicus xantholophus

Other Names (World)
Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Golden-crowned Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
23 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hargitt, 1883)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 2,150 m.

Range (Guide)
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda.

South-western Cameroon east to southern Sudan, western and central Uganda and extreme western Kenya, and south to north-western Angola and south-western and south-central Zaire; unconfirmed sight records from Nigeria thought to be unreliable.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
An excited 'kwilwikwi...'. A repeated slurred and burry descending 'kree'.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (7)...)

 
Yellow-crested Woodpecker (Chloropicus xantholophus) [XC739528]
     by Gerard Gorman from Royal Mile Budongo forest, Uganda (drumming)

 
Yellow-crested Woodpecker (Chloropicus xantholophus) [XC96967]
     by Martin St-Michel from Budongo Forest, Uganda (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Dendropicos pyrrhogaster).

No subspecies.


References
See References.


Files:
JPG files for Golden-crowned Woodpecker (Dendropicos xantholophus) - 10 files


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