Southern Sooty Woodpecker

About the Southern Sooty Woodpecker

The southern sooty woodpecker is a bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to the Philippines on the islands of Mindanao, Leyte, and Samar. Its natural habitat is It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Where the Southern Sooty Woodpecker lives

When to see the Southern Sooty Woodpecker

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

Easily confused with

Northern Sooty WoodpeckerMulleripicus funebrisThe northern sooty woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. Ashy WoodpeckerMulleripicus fulvusThe ashy woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker 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.