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 monotypic in the genus Reinwardtipicus. It is a forest specialist that is found primarily in the canopy.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Piciformes |
| Family: | Picidae |
| Genus: | Chrysocolaptes |
| Species: | C. validus
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| Chrysocolaptes validus (Temminck, 1825)
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Taxonomy
editThe 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]
Two subspecies are recognised:[4]
- C. v. xanthopygius (Finsch, 1905) – the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
- C. v. validus (Temminck, 1825) – Java
References
edit- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Chrysocolaptes validus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ 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
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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 maps
- Audio recordings of Orange-backed woodpecker on Xeno-canto.
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