Speckle-breasted Woodpecker

When to see the Speckle-breasted Woodpecker

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Speckle-breasted Woodpecker

The map shades 5 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 Rwanda.

About the Speckle-breasted Woodpecker

The speckle-breasted woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae, which is native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Easily confused with

Abyssinian WoodpeckerDendropicos abyssinicusThe Abyssinian woodpecker is a very small woodpecker with a relatively long and broad bill. Gabon WoodpeckerDendropicos gabonensisThe Gabon woodpecker is a small woodpecker with a short bill which is quite broad at the base. Melancholy WoodpeckerDendropicos lugubrisThe melancholy woodpecker is 17–18 cm (6.7–7.1 in) long.