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Melancholy Woodpecker
Dendropicos lugubris Hartlaub, 1857
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Melancholy Woodpecker, Dendropicos lugubris, is a woodpecker of West Africa, breeding from Sierra Leone to south-west Nigeria. It was described by Hartlaub in 1857. It is linked to open forest, forest edges, clearings, secondary forest and woodland, and is also recorded from swamps, plantations and gardens. The species has been treated as part of the Gabon Woodpecker complex. Its range lies within the Upper Guinean forests, and it is found up to 1,200 m. It is a monotypic species.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- Africa: Sierra Leone to sw Nigeria
