Iberian Green Woodpecker
Picus sharpei
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The Iberian green woodpecker is a medium-sized woodpecker endemic to the Iberian peninsula. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the European green woodpecker but differs in having little black on the head and a dusky rather than a black ring around each eye. Its sound has been described as sibilant, or hiss-like.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Picus