Green-backed Woodpecker

Campethera maculosa (Valenciennes, 1826)

Green-backed Woodpecker, Campethera maculosa, is a woodpecker of western, central, eastern and south-eastern Africa. It occurs across tropical Africa and uses forest edges, clearings, and mixed areas of forest and shrub. Its range is broad, and it is one of the Campethera woodpeckers. The species was first described in 1826 by Valenciennes. It is known from Senegal and Guinea-Bissau east to Ghana and Liberia, and also from other parts of its African range.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae — Woodpeckers

Breeding range

Africa: w, c, e, se