White-winged Woodpecker

Dendrocopos leucopterus (Salvadori, 1871)

White-winged Woodpecker, Dendrocopos leucopterus, is a woodpecker of the Palearctic, breeding from south-central and south-eastern Kazakhstan into northern and western Xinjiang in north-west China, and south through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to north-central Afghanistan and western Kyrgyzstan and western Tajikistan. It belongs to the family Picidae. Its range also includes Afghanistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The species was described by Salvadori in 1871.

Order

Piciformes

Family

Picidae — Woodpeckers

Breeding range

Palearctic: sc, se Kazakhstan to n, w Xinjiang (nw China), s through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to nc Afghanistan and w Kyrgyzstan and w Tajikistan