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Okavango, Botswana, June 2001

Dendropicos namaquus

[edit] Identification

23-25cm

• Broad postocular and malar stripes
• White-spotted forehead
  

Male: red hind-crown

[edit] Distribution

Africa
Western Africa: Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

There are 3 subspecies

• D. m. namaquus:

• West Central African Republic to southern Sudan, eastern Zaire, Tanzania and Angola

• D. m. schoensis:

• Ethiopia to Somalia and northern Kenya

• D. m. coalescens:

• Central and southern Mozambique to eastern South Africa

[edit] Habitat

Bush and woodland.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes insects, spiders and geckoes.

[edit] Vocalisation

The call is a loud wickwickwickwick.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Kenya Birds
4. What's That Bird

• List of references

[edit] External Links