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| Orange-backed woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Chrysocolaptes |
| Species: | C. validus
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| Binomial name | |
| Chrysocolaptes validus (Temminck, 1825)
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| Synonyms | |
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Reinwardtipicus validus | |
The orange-backed woodpecker (Chrysocolaptes validus) is a bird in the woodpecker family Picidae, found in southern Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia, Brunei, Sumatra, and Java. It is a forest specialist that is found primarily in the canopy.[2]
Taxonomy
[edit]The orange-backed woodpecker was described and illustrated in 1825 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in his Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux from specimens that had been collected on the Indonesian island of Java. He coined the binomial name Pic validus.[3] This species was previously placed in its own genus Reinwardtipicus.[4] It is now one of ten species placed in the genus Chrysocolaptes that was introduced in 1843 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.[5]
Two subspecies are recognised:[5]
- C. v. xanthopygius (Finsch, 1905) – the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
- C. v. validus (Temminck, 1825) – Java
Gallery
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References
[edit]- ^ BirdLife International. (2016). "Chrysocolaptes validus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016 e.T22681549A92910730. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22681549A92910730.en. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
- ^ Wies, Germán; Nicasio Arzeta, Sergio; Martinez Ramos, Miguel (March 2021). "Critical ecological thresholds for conservation of tropical rainforest in Human Modified Landscapes". Biological Conservation. 255 109023. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109023. ISSN 0006-3207.
- ^ Temminck, Coenraad Jacob (1838) [1825]. Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux, pour servir de suite et de complément aux planches enluminées de Buffon (in French). Vol. 4. Paris: F.G. Levrault. Plates 378 (male), 402 (female). The pages are not numbered. The five volumes were originally issued in 102 parts, 1820-1839
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ^ a b AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
External links
[edit]- BirdLife species factsheet for Chrysocolaptes validus
- "Reinwardtipicus validus". Avibase.
- "Orange-backed woodpecker media". Internet Bird Collection.
- Interactive range map of Chrysocolaptes validus at IUCN Red List
- Audio recordings of Orange-backed woodpecker on Xeno-canto.
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