Golden-tailed Woodpecker (Campethera abingoni)

About Golden-tailed Woodpecker (Campethera abingoni)

• Kingdom: Animals
• Phylum: Chordates
• Class: Birds
• Order: Woodpeckers, Barbets, Toucans, and Honeyguides
• Family: Piculets and Woodpeckers

The golden-tailed woodpecker is a species of bird in the family Picidae. Its specific name commemorates the 5th Earl of Abingdon. It belongs to a species complex that includes the Knysna woodpecker to the south of its range, and the mostly allopatric Mombasa woodpecker to the northeast, with which it perhaps hybridizes.