Brown-fronted Woodpecker
Dendrocoptes auriceps(Vigors, NA, 1831)
English (US) Brown-fronted Woodpecker
The Brown-fronted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes auriceps) 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: northern Baluchistan and western Himalayas (Afghanistan to northern India and Nepal)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Dendrocoptes auriceps
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Brown-fronted Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus auriceps
- Described by
- (Vigors, NA, 1831)
- Type locality
- Himalayas.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London 1, no.4 p.44
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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