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Campethera punctuligera

Photo by Steve G
Kotu, The Gambia

[edit] Identification

[edit] Distribution

Africa:
Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo
Eastern Africa: Sudan

One of the commonest Woodpecker species in the Gambia.

Female
Photo by scottishdude
The Gambia, March 2010

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Subspecies^[1]

• C. p. punctuligera:

• South-western Mauritania to Senegambia, Cameroon, south-western Sudan, north-eastern Zaire

• C. p. balia:

• Southern Sudan to extreme north-eastern Zaire

[edit] Habitat

These birds favour savanna woodland containing good stands of Oil palms.

[edit] Behaviour

They can frequently be found feeding on the ground, especially around termite mounds.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase

• List of references

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