Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica)

2123 cm and endemic to NE Africa.

The male has a full red crown and moustachial stripe, and black-spotted face, neck, breast and flanks. The female has a black crown with white spots, red nape and blackish moustachial stripes. Plain throat and heavily marked ear coverts separate both sexes from Speckle-throated Woodpecker, and spotted (not streaked) breast separates adults from Golden-tailed and Mombasa woodpeckers.
Juvenile is browner and darker above, with black malar stripes; more heavily marked below, sometimes appearing streaked from chin to breast.