Little Grey Woodpecker
Dendropicos elachusOberholser, HC, 1919
English (US) Little Gray Woodpecker
UK name: Little Grey Woodpecker
The Little Grey Woodpecker (Dendropicos elachus) 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: Sahel (southwestern Mauritania to Senegambia, Chad, and west-central Sudan)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Dendropicos elachus
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Little Gray Woodpecker
- English (UK)
- Little Grey Woodpecker
- Described by
- Oberholser, HC, 1919
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Oberholser, HC, 1919
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 32 p.8
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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