Olive-backed woodpecker

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Olive-backed woodpecker
from Malaysia. Stuffed specimen

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Gecinulus
Species:
G. rafflesii
Binomial name
Gecinulus rafflesii
(Vigors, 1830)

The olive-backed woodpecker (Gecinulus rafflesii) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family

Picidae
that is found in Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

The olive-backed woodpecker was

type location is Sumatra.[5] The species is now placed in the genus Dinopium that was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814.[6][7]

A large phylogenetic study of the woodpecker family Picidae published in 2017 found that the olive-backed woodpecker (Gecinulus rafflesii) is more closely related to the pale-headed woodpecker (Gecinulus grantia).[8] It may, therefore, be more appropriately assigned to the genus Chloropicoides.[9]

Two subspecies are recognised:[7]

Description

The olive-backed woodpecker has yellow-green upperparts and gray-olive underparts. The side of the head has two black and white stripes. The male has a large red crest, the female has a smaller black crest.[10]

Distribution and habitat

The olive-backed woodpecker has a wide range in Southeast Asia, occurring in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia (on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland, mangrove and montane forests; the species avoids clearings and secondary forest.[11]

Conservation

Gecinulus rafflesii is threatened by illegal

IUCN.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2012). "Dinopium rafflesii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  2. ^ Raffles, Sophia (1830). Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. London: John Murray. p. 669.
  3. ^ Bruce, M.D. (2003). "Systematic notes on Asian birds. 40. The authorship of the new bird names proposed in the 'Memoir of the Life of Raffles' by his widow, Lady Sophia Raffles (1830)". Zoologische Verhandelingen. 344: 111–115 [113].
  4. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
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  5. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1948). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 6. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 146.
  6. ^ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel (1814). Principes Fondamentaux de Somiologie (in French). Palerme. Inside front cover.
  7. ^
    Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers"
    . IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  8. PMID 28890006
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  9. doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a5
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  10. ISBN 0-913176-05-2
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  11. ^ "Olive-backed woodpecker - Dinopium rafflesii". BirdLife International.
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