Black-rumped Flameback (Dinopium benghalense)

Other Names (World)
Black-rumped Flameback, Lesser Flameback, Lesser Goldenback, Lesser Golden-backed Woodpecker, Black-rumped Golden-backed Woodpecker, Ceylon Golden-backed Woodpecker (psarodes)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
26 - 29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, dry forest. From sea-level - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (23)...)

Black-rumped Flameback (Dinopium benghalense) [XC612026]
by Vikrant Prabhulkar from National Botanic Garden, Mirpur, Dhaka District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh (call)

Black-rumped Flameback (Dinopium benghalense) [XC879008]
by id from Payyavoor, Kannur, Kerala, India (song)

Subspecies
Southern Sri Lankan subspecies sometimes referred to as erithronothos (or, erroneously, as erithronothon), but psarodes has priority. Clinal decrease in size and variation in colour from north to south, and considerable individual variation, together with intergrading of populations, all combine to make racial delimitation difficult. Western Indian birds sometimes separated as subspecies tehminae and those in northern Sri Lanka as jaffnense, but both probably more appropriately included in puncticolle.

The following 6 subspecies are recognised:

dilutum (Blyth, 1852) - Pakistan.
benghalense (Linnaeus, 1758) - North-western and northern India east to Assam and south-western Myanmar.
puncticolle (Malherbe, 1845) - Central India south to northern Sri Lanka.
psarodes (A. A. H. Lichtenstein, 1793) - Sri Lanka (except north). Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Lesser Sri Lanka Flameback (Dinopium psarodes).
tehminae (Whistler & Kinnear, 1934) - South-western India.
jaffnense (Whistler, 1944) - Northern Sri Lanka.

References
See References.

Files:

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