Reichenow's Woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda)

Other Names (World)
Reichenow's Woodpecker, Speckle-throated Woodpecker, Tanzanian Woodpecker

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
20 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Reichenow, 1896)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland dry shrubland, dry savanna. From sea-level - 1,600 m.

Range (Guide)

Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania [United Republic of].

Inland eastern and southern Tanzania south to southern Malawi (south to Nsanje area) and central Mozambique; recorded also at base of Mt Kilimanjaro, in northern Tanzania.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files

Speckle-throated Woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda) [XC96363]
by id from Tanga Region: Handeni District; Magambazi Forest Reserve, Tanzania (call)

Subspecies
Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) and Reichenow's Woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Campethera bennettii following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera), Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica) and Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii). Frequently treated as conspecific with Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii), and sometimes with all three.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

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