Melancholy Woodpecker

Melancholy Woodpecker
Illustration (right) with Gabon Woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Dendropicos
Species:	D. lugubris
Binomial name
Dendropicos lugubris Hartlaub, 1857

The Melancholy Woodpecker, Dendropicos lugubris, is a species of woodpecker. It is found in Africa from Sierra Leone east to Nigeria. It is often considered to be a subspecies of Gabon Woodpecker, Dendropicos gabonensis, but here it is treated as a separate species following the Handbook of the Birds of the World.

References

• BioLib

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