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Brown-eared Woodpecker
Pardipicus caroli (Malherbe, 1852)
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Brown-eared Woodpecker, Pardipicus caroli, is a woodpecker of central and western Africa, where it inhabits dense tropical forest. It also uses secondary forest, plantations, river-edge woodland and more open country with grassy trees. Its range extends across countries including Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Congo basin, Uganda and Zambia. A notable feature is the large rufous-brown area behind the eye and over the ear coverts, with the sexes alike apart from the male’s red hind-crown. It was described by Malherbe in 1852.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- Africa: c, w
