White-winged Woodpecker
Dendrocopos leucopterus(Salvadori, AT, 1871)
English (US) White-winged Woodpecker
The White-winged Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucopterus) 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: Aral Sea to Lake Balkhash, northeastern Afghanistan, and far western ChinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Dendrocopos leucopterus
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- White-winged Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Salvadori, AT, 1871)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus (Dendrocopus) leucopterus
- Described by
- (Salvadori, AT, 1871)
- Type locality
- Yarkand, Kashgaria.
- Original description
- Atti della R[eale] Accademia delle Scienze di Torino 6 p.129
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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