Olive woodpecker
| Olive woodpecker | |
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| D. g. subsp. persimilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Dendropicos |
| Species: | D. griseocephalus
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| Binomial name | |
| Dendropicos griseocephalus (Boddaert, 1783)
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| Geographic distribution shown in green | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chloropicus griseocephalus | |
The olive woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family
Picidae.[2]
Taxonomy
The olive woodpecker was described by the French polymath
binomial name Picus griseocephalus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées.[5] The olive woodpecker is now placed in the genus Dendropicos that was introduced by the French ornithologist Alfred Malherbe in 1849.[6] The generic name is from the Ancient Greek dendron meaning tree and pikos for woodpecker. The specific epithet griseocephalus combines the Medieval Latin griseus meaning "grey" and the Ancient Greek -kephalos meaning "-headed".[7]
Three subspecies are recognised:[8]
- D. g. ruwenzori (Sharpe, 1902) – Angola, north Zambia, north Malawi and central Tanzania to southeast DR Congo and southwest Uganda
- D. g. kilimensis (Neumann, 1926) – north and east Tanzania
- D. g. griseocephalus (Boddaert, 1783) – south Mozambique to South Africa
Distribution and habitat
The olive woodpecker is native to central, east and southern Africa, from the
Ruwenzori Mountains to the Western Cape. It is found in Angola, Burundi, DRC, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
. The species occupies a range of wooded and forested habitats from 450–3,700 m (1,480–12,140 ft).
References
- . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- PMID 25818851.
- ^ Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1780). "Pie a tête gris du Cap de Bonne-Espérance". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 13. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. p. 38.
- Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie (1765–1783). "Pie à tête gris, du Cap de Bonne-Esperance". Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle. Vol. 8. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale. Plate 786 Fig. 2.
- ^ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 49, Number 786 Fig. 2.
- ^ Malherbe, Alfred (1849). "Nouvelle classification des picinée ou pics". Mémoires de l'Académie nationale de Metz (in French). 30: 316, 338.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Woodpeckers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dendropicos griseocephalus.
Wikispecies has information related to Mesopicos griseocephalus.
- Olive woodpecker - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
- Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the olive woodpecker
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