Brown-eared Woodpecker (Campethera caroli)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
18 - 19 cm

First Described (Guide)
Malherbe, 1852

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland and montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,800 m.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Zambia.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (2)...)

Brown-eared Woodpecker (Campethera caroli) [XC619161]
by id from Djomo, Bayanga, Sangha-Mbare, Central African Republic (call)

Brown-eared Woodpecker (Campethera caroli) [XC613308]
by Peter Boesman from Djomo, Bayanga, Sangha-Mbare, Central African Republic (call)

Subspecies
Proposed subspecies budongoensis (Uganda and western Kenya) inseparable from nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

arizela (Oberholser, 1899) - Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone to Ghana.
caroli Malherbe, 1852 - Benin and Nigeria (rare), and Cameroon east to south-western Sudan, Uganda (except north-east) and western Kenya (Kakamega), and south to north-western Angola, southern Zaire and north-western Zambia, western Burundi and north-western Tanzania (Bukoba).

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown-eared Woodpecker (Campethera caroli) - 10 files

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