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ForestCavity nestSmall · 54 g
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The little green woodpecker is about 16 cm (6.3 in) long and weighs about 54 g (1.9 oz). The male's crown is olive-blackish with an indistinct reddish colour, and the nape is red. The head, neck and throat are buff, with brown spots. The upperparts are yellowish-green or bronze-green. The flight feathers are brown and have buffish bars. The tail is blackish, with some yellow and green. The underparts are buffish from the throat to the breast and greenish-white below the breast, all of the underparts having deep olive bars.
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When to see the Green-backed Woodpecker
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Green-backed Woodpecker
The map shades 25 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 Somalia.
About the Green-backed Woodpecker
The little green woodpecker, or green-backed woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is widely distributed in tropical Africa, living in forest edges, clearings, and forest-shrub mosaics. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a least-concern species.
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Easily confused with
Fine-spotted WoodpeckerCampethera punctuligeraThis bird is 22 cm (8.7 in) in length.
Fine-banded WoodpeckerCampethera taeniolaemaThe fine-banded woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
Mombasa WoodpeckerCampethera mombassicaThe Mombasa woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae.
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