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Location: Bishengari lodge, Lake Lagano, Ethiopia

Dendropicos spodocephalus

Disambiguation: This is the African species formerly considered a subspecies of Grey Woodpecker. For the European species Picus canus known as Grey-headed Woodpecker in the Collins guide, Howard and Moore, and Gill and Wright, see Grey-faced Woodpecker.

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Eastern Sudan, western and central Ethiopian highlands, western Kenya and northern Tanzania.

[edit] Taxonomy

Dendropicos spodocephalus has two subspecies:^[1]

• D. s. rhodeogaster

• Highlands of western Kenya to north-central Tanzania

• D. s. spodocephalus

• Extreme eastern Sudan and highlands of central and southern Ethiopia

[edit] Habitat

Highland forest.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Sinclair, I and P Ryan. 2003. Birds of Africa South of the Sahara. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691118154

• List of references

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