Brown-backed Woodpecker
Dendropicos obsoletus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Dendropicos
- eBird Code
- brbwoo1
Subspecies (4)
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Dendropicos obsoletus crateri
northern Tanzania (Crater Highlands southward to Nou Forest)
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Dendropicos obsoletus heuglini
eastern Sudan to northern Ethiopia and Eritrea
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Dendropicos obsoletus ingens
central and southern Ethiopia to northeastern Uganda, Kenya, and far northern Tanzania
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Dendropicos obsoletus obsoletus
Senegambia to southern Cameroon, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Sudan, and Uganda
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.