Yellow-crested Woodpecker
Chloropicus xantholophus Hargitt, 1883
Picidae — Woodpeckers
Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Chloropicus xantholophus, is a woodpecker of western and central Africa, from south-eastern Nigeria and Cameroon east to western Kenya and east Democratic Republic of the Congo, and south to northern Angola. It lives in wet tropical forest, including dense rainforest, other forest types, forest edges and plantations with some large trees left standing. The male has a small golden crown patch marked with black, while the female lacks it. Both sexes also show yellow-tipped crown feathers.
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae — Woodpeckers
- Breeding range
- Africa: se Nigeria and Cameroon to w Kenya, e DR Congo and n Angola
