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Piciformes / Picidae / Chloropicus

Bearded Woodpecker

Chloropicus namaquus

IUCN: Least Concern

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (beawoo1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.

Taxonomy

Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Chloropicus

Subspecies (3)

Chloropicus namaquus coalescens

central and southern Mozambique to eastern South Africa
Chloropicus namaquus namaquus

western Central African Republic to southern Sudan, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and western Kenya, and from Angola southward to Namibia and eastward to Tanzania, to Botswana, central Mozambique, and northern South Africa
Chloropicus namaquus schoensis

Ethiopia to Somalia and northern Kenya

Data Sources

AviList 2025 eBird (beawoo1) Avibase

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.