Splendid woodpecker

Splendid woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Campephilus
Species: C. splendens
Binomial name
Campephilus splendens
Hargitt, 1889

The splendid woodpecker (Campephilus splendens) is a bird in the Picidae family formerly considered conspecific with the crimson-bellied woodpecker (Campephilus haematogaster). It is found in western and north-western Ecuador, south-western and western Colombia and eastern and northern Panama. Favoured habitats are humid and wet forest or montane forest from lowlands to 1,600 metres.[1]

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