Melancholy Woodpecker
Dendropicos lugubrisHartlaub, KJG, 1857
English (US) Melancholy Woodpecker
The Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) 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: Sierra Leone to southeastern Ghana, southern Nigeria, and southwestern CameroonRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Dendropicos lugubris
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Melancholy Woodpecker
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1857
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Dendropicus lugubris
- Described by
- Hartlaub, KJG, 1857
- Type locality
- Aguapim, Gold Coast.
- Original description
- System der Ornithologie Westafrica's p.178
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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