Golden-tailed Woodpecker
Campethera abingoni
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Birds
The golden-tailed woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. Its specific name commemorates the 5th Earl of Abingdon. It belongs to a species complex that includes the Knysna woodpecker to the south of its range, and the mostly allopatric Mombasa woodpecker to the northeast, with which it perhaps hybridizes.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- Genus
- Campethera