Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Dendropicos pyrrhogaster)

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

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Malherbe, 1845)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest.

Range (Guide)

Benin, Cameroon, C�te dIvoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo.

Sierra Leone and southern Guinea east to southern Nigeria (Niger Delta) and south-western Cameroon.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (17)...)

Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) [XC23291]
by Mike Catsis from Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone (drumming)

Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Chloropicus pyrrhogaster) [XC411795]
by \u00c9tienne Leroy from Parc National de la For\u00eat de Ta\u00ef, Ivory Coast (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Yellow-crested Woodpecker (Dendropicos xantholophus).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Fire-bellied Woodpecker (Dendropicos pyrrhogaster) - 10 files

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