Maroon Woodpecker
Blythipicus rubiginosus(Swainson, WJ, 1837)
English (US) Maroon Woodpecker
The Maroon Woodpecker (Blythipicus rubiginosus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Picidae (Woodpeckers) in the order Piciformes.
Range: southern Myanmar, southwestern Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and BorneoRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Blythipicus rubiginosus
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Maroon Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hemicircus rubiginosus
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1837)
- Type locality
- West Africa; error = Malacca, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 402.
- Original description
- The natural history of the birds of Western Africa 2 p.150
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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