Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Fine-spotted Woodpecker (Campethera punctuligera) - HBW 7, p. 457
French: Pic à taches noires
German: Pünktchenspecht
Spanish: Pito Salpicado
Taxonomy: Picus punctuligerus Wagler, 1827, Senegambia.
Forms a superspecies with C. nubica, C. bennettii and C. scriptoricauda, and all sometimes considered conspecific. Races intergrade in Sudan and NE Zaire. Described race batesi (N Cameroon) synonymized with nominate. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- punctuligera (Wagler, 1827) - SW Mauritania (c. 60 km N of Rosso) and Senegambia E to SW Sudan and S to C Ivory Coast (Lamto), Ghana (Mole), S Nigeria (Abeokuta), C Cameroon (Mt Zoro and Mbakaou) and NE Zaire (upper Uele Valley).
- balia (Heuglin, 1871) - S Sudan to extreme NE Zaire.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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female bird Locality Janjanbureh (Georgetown), Central River Division, The Gambia (ssp punctuligera)
Daniêl Jimenez 29 December 2011 1 year ago 34 sec 4.1 -
Female on branch Locality Mole National Park, Northern Region, Ghana (ssp punctuligera)
mark sutton 6 December 2010 2 years ago 27 sec 3.4 -
A bird pecking a trunk, against the light. Locality Toubacouta, Fatick Region, Senegal
Juan Sanabria 1 January 2008 4 years ago 34 sec 1.5
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An adult female. a breeding bird.
Locality Balaba Nature Camp, Gunjur, Western Division, The Gambia
M P Goodey 1 September 2007 1 year ago 4.3 -
Adult
Locality Brufut, Western Division, The Gambia
Paul Cools 8 February 2012 27 weeks ago 4 -
Bird at a palm tree
Locality Lower River Division , The Gambia
Klaus Lachenmaier 26 March 2013 5 weeks ago 3.7 -
Pito salpicado macho, en Mandinaba, Gambia, 2008.
Locality Pirang, Western Division, The Gambia
Juan José Bazán Hiraldo 13 October 2008 2 years ago 3.6 -
A male
Locality North Bank Division, The Gambia
Daniêl Jimenez 7 January 2005 4 years ago 2.5 -
A male
Locality North Bank Division, The Gambia
Daniêl Jimenez 7 January 2005 4 years ago 2.5
- No sound recordings available yet
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