Cardinal Woodpecker

Subspecies (9)

• Dendropicos fuscescens fuscescens

  north-central Namibia to north-central South Africa (to western KwaZulu-Natal)

• Dendropicos fuscescens hartlaubii

  coastal southern Kenya to Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique

• Dendropicos fuscescens hemprichii

  lower elevations of the Horn of Africa: Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia to northern and eastern Kenya

• Dendropicos fuscescens intermedius

  eastern South Africa to central and southern Mozambique (south of the lower Zambezi River)

• Dendropicos fuscescens lafresnayi

  Senegambia and Sierra Leone to Nigeria

• Dendropicos fuscescens lepidus

  South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to highlands of Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, and northwestern Tanzania

• Dendropicos fuscescens loandae

  eastern Angola to northern Namibia, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, and Zambia

• Dendropicos fuscescens massaicus

  southern Ethiopia, inland and western Kenya, and north-central Tanzania

• Dendropicos fuscescens sharpii

  Cameroon and Central African Republic to western Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Angola