Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera)

Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
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Voice
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Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera) [XC781275]
by Peter Boesman from Toubakouta, Foundiougne, R\u00e9gion de Fatick, Senegal (call)

Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera) [XC425564]
by Peter Boesman from Janjanbureh, Janjanbureh, Central River, Gambia (call)

Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica), Bennett's Woodpecker (Campethera bennettii) and Reichenow's Woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda), and all sometimes considered conspecific. Subspecies intergrade in Sudan and north-eastern Zaire. Described subspecies batesi (northern Cameroon) synonymized with nominate.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

punctuligera (Wagler, 1827) - South-western Mauritania (c. 60 km north of Rosso) and Senegambia east to south-western Sudan and south to central Ivory Coast (Lamto), Ghana (Mole), southern Nigeria (Abeokuta), central Cameroon (Mt Zoro and Mbakaou) and north-eastern Zaire (upper Uele Valley).
balia (Heuglin, 1871) - Southern Sudan to extreme north-eastern Zaire.

References
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Files:

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