Melancholy woodpecker

Melancholy woodpecker
Illustration (right) with Gabon woodpecker (in front)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Dendropicos
Species: D. lugubris
Binomial name
Dendropicos lugubris
Hartlaub, 1857

The melancholy woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) is a species of woodpecker. It is found in Africa from Sierra Leone east to Nigeria. It is often considered to be a subspecies of Gabon woodpecker, Dendropicos gabonensis, but here it is treated as a separate species following the Handbook of the Birds of the World.

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