Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris)

Family
Picidae (Woodpeckers)

Size
17 - 18 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hartlaub, 1857)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From sea-level - 1,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone to south-eastern Ghana, southern Nigeria and south-western Cameroon.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2011).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (6)...)

Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) [XC23284]
by Mike Nelson from Freetown Peninsula, Sierra Leone (drumming)

Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) [XC719090]
by Patrik \u00c5berg from Bobiri Butterfly Reserve, Ghana (call)

Subspecies
Gabon Woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis) and Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) have been lumped into Dendropicos gabonensis following Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993).

Forms a superspecies with Gabon Woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis) and sometimes treated as conspecific, a view supported by the fact that subspecies reichenowi of Gabon Woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis) in Nigeria and Cameroon is somewhat intermediate between Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) and nominate gabonensis of Gabon Woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis). Indeed subspecies reichenowi was formerly considered to belong instead to Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris).

Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Gabon Woodpecker (Dendropicos gabonensis).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

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