Buff-spotted Flameback

Chrysocolaptes lucidus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesWoodlandCavity nestMedium · 142 g

When to see the Buff-spotted Flameback

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Buff-spotted Flameback

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 2 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in India, Nepal.

About the Buff-spotted Flameback

The buff-spotted flameback is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is found on the Philippine islands of Bohol, Leyte, Samar, Biliran, Panaon, Mindanao, Basilan, and Samal. Along with the other Philippine species, Yellow-faced flameback, Luzon flameback, Red-headed flameback, it was formerly conspecific greater flameback

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Easily confused with

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