Northern Sooty Woodpecker

About the Northern Sooty Woodpecker

The northern sooty woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests and tropical moist montane forests.

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Where the Northern Sooty Woodpecker lives

When to see the Northern Sooty Woodpecker

Peak activity in February · a variable species across most of its range

Easily confused with

Ashy WoodpeckerMulleripicus fulvusThe ashy woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae. Southern Sooty WoodpeckerMulleripicus fuliginosusThe southern sooty woodpecker is a bird in the family Picidae. Great Slaty WoodpeckerMulleripicus pulverulentusWith the probable extinctions of the imperial and ivory-billed woodpeckers, this species, at 45–55 cm (18–22 in) long and a weight of 360–563 g (0.794–1.241 lb), is the largest woodpecker in the world, though the northern Eurasian black woodpecker is nearly as large with some overlap in size.