Yellow-crested Woodpecker
Chloropicus xantholophus(Hargitt, E, 1883)
English (US) Yellow-crested Woodpecker
The Yellow-crested Woodpecker (Chloropicus xantholophus) 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: southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon to far southern South Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, central Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northwestern AngolaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Chloropicus xantholophus
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Yellow-crested Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Hargitt, E, 1883)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Dendropicus xantholophus
- Described by
- (Hargitt, E, 1883)
- Type locality
- Gaboon.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.5, vol.1, no.2 p.173
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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