Heart-spotted Woodpecker
Hemicircus canente(Lesson, RP, 1832)
English (US) Heart-spotted Woodpecker
The Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) 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: humid forest of peninsular India, Myanmar, Thailand, and IndochinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hemicircus canente
- Family
- Picidae (Woodpeckers)
- Order
- Piciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Heart-spotted Woodpecker
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Picus canente
- Described by
- (Lesson, RP, 1832)
- Type locality
- Pegu.
- Original description
- Centurie zoologique, ou choix d'animaux rares, nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus (etc.) livr. 13-16 p.215 pl.73
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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