Speckle-throated woodpecker

Speckle-throated woodpecker
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Campethera
Species:
C. scriptoricauda
Binomial name
Campethera scriptoricauda
(Reichenow, 1896)

The speckle-throated woodpecker (Campethera scriptoricauda), also known as Reichenow's woodpecker, is an East African woodpecker often considered a subspecies of Bennett's woodpecker.[2] The bird is named after the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow.[3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Campethera scriptoricauda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22680897A92885065. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680897A92885065.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Zimmerman, Dale A.; Turner, Donald A. & Pearson, David J. (1999), Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Field Guide Edition, Princeton University Press, pp. 150–151, 408–4095, ISBN 0-691-01022-6
  3. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 283.