Crimson-backed flameback

Not to be confused with Red-backed flameback.

Crimson-backed flameback
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Chrysocolaptes
Species:	C. stricklandi
Binomial name
Chrysocolaptes stricklandi (Layard, 1854) [2]
Synonyms
Brachypternus stricklandi

The crimson-backed flameback or greater Sri Lanka flameback (Chrysocolaptes stricklandi) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka.

The crimson-backed flameback and the greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) were both formerly considered as subspecies of the buff-spotted flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus). ^{[3] [4]}

Nigel Collar (2011, p. 33) notes the differences between Chrysocolaptes stricklandi and Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus as being that the former has a crimson rather than golden upper body plumage, a yellow rather than a black beak, a weaker supramoustachial stripe and a less noticeable, even spotty, eyebrow stripe. ^[5]

Notes

It takes its binomial name (formerly Brachypternus stricklandi) from Hugh Edwin Strickland (see Layard 1854 p. 29).

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Chrysocolaptes stricklandi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T22726554A94925144. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726554A94925144.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Layard, E. L., 1854. XXIV.—Notes on the ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an eight years’ residence in the Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 13 (76):257–264 (see page 29)
3. Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Anderton, John C. (2012). Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Vol. 2: Attributes and Status (2nd ed.). Washington D.C. and Barcelona: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Lynx Edicions. p. 290. ISBN   978-84-96553-87-3.
4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
5. Collar, N.J. (2011). "Species limits in some Philippine birds including the Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus". Forktail. 27: 29–38.

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