Yellow-crested woodpecker

Yellow-crested woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Chloropicus
Species: C. xantholophus
Binomial name
Chloropicus xantholophus
(Hargitt, 1883)
Synonyms

Thripias xantholophus
Dendropicos xantholophus

The yellow-crested woodpecker (Chloropicus xantholophus), also known as the golden-crowned woodpecker, is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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