Woodpeckers (Picidae)
Nubian Woodpecker (Campethera nubica) - HBW 7, p. 457
French: Pic de Nubie
German: Nubierspecht
Spanish: Pito de Nubia
Taxonomy: Picus Nubicus Boddaert, 1783, Nubia, north Sudan.
Forms a superspecies with C. punctuligera, C. bennettii and C. scriptoricauda, and sometimes all considered conspecific. Identity of birds in E Rwanda uncertain; they probably belong either to C. bennettii or to nominate race of present species. Races poorly differentiated, and they intergrade; delimitation uncertain, complicated by apparent habitat-conditioned variation of nominate. Two subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nubica (Boddaert, 1783) - WC & NE Sudan, Ethiopia and NW & SW Somalia, S to NE Zaire (Beni, Rutshuru Plain), adjacent W Uganda, Kenya and C & SW Tanzania (Morogoro and Rukwa Valley); possibly this taxon in E Rwanda.
- pallida (Sharpe, 1902) - E & S Somalia and coastal Kenya.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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in a tree Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (ssp nubica)
Daniêl Jimenez 22 September 2010 2 years ago 20 sec 4.5 -
A female having a bath in a puddle where other birds are drinking. Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 7 years ago 42 sec 4.2 -
Bird drinking at pool with White-browed Sparrow Weaver Locality Wabi Shabelle, Ethiopia
Keith and Lynn Youngs 12 November 2010 1 year ago 58 sec 4.1 -
A female shaking its plumage after bathing. Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 7 years ago 26 sec 4.1 -
A female drinking in a puddle with many other birds. Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 7 years ago 30 sec 3.7 -
A female drinking in a puddle, displacing some birds and being displaced by others. Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Josep del Hoyo 30 November 2005 7 years ago 36 sec 3.6
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female
Locality Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Krzysztof Blachowiak 17 November 2009 3 years ago 4.4 -
In a acacia
Locality Yabelo, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Guy Poisson 9 February 2010 2 years ago 3.6 -
A female in a thorn bush.
Locality Negele Boran, Oromia Region, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Nick Athanas 12 August 2004 4 years ago 3.4 -
A female in a thorn bush.
Locality Bilen Lodge, Awash National Park, Ethiopia (ssp nubica)
Ken Havard 11 November 2011 51 weeks ago 3 -
A female.
Locality Lake Langano, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Josep del Hoyo 1 December 2005 3 years ago 3 -
Bird in a tree
Locality Gambo Rural Hospital, Shashamane, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Juan Gonzalez Valdivieso 1 October 2009 2 years ago 2.3
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A female calling once near a nest (repeated). Locality Tsavo West National Park, Kenya
Jean Hupperetz 30 November 2003 16 weeks ago 4
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