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The Gabon woodpecker is a small woodpecker with a short bill which is quite broad at the base. It has plain green upperparts, a plain dark tail and heavily spotted underparts with a yellowish background colour. The crown is brownish but the males have a red hindcrown and nape, as well as an indistinct, narrow moustachial. The adult females lack red on the head, however both sexes of juveniles have red on the centre of the crown. The subspecies D.g.
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When to see the Gabon Woodpecker
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Gabon Woodpecker
The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Ghana.
About the Gabon Woodpecker
The Gabon woodpecker is a species of small woodpecker in the family Picidae which occurs in western central Africa.
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Easily confused with
Little Grey WoodpeckerDendropicos elachusThe little grey woodpecker is a very small woodpecker, growing to a length of between 12 and 14 cm (4.7 and 5.5 in).
Abyssinian WoodpeckerDendropicos abyssinicusThe Abyssinian woodpecker is a very small woodpecker with a relatively long and broad bill.
Stierling's WoodpeckerDendropicos stierlingiThis woodpecker grows to a length of about 17.5 cm (7 in).
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