Orange-backed woodpecker

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Orange-backed woodpecker
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Reinwardtipicus
Species:
R. validus
Binomial name
Reinwardtipicus validus
(Temminck, 1825)
Synonyms

Chrysocolaptes validus

The orange-backed woodpecker (Reinwardtipicus 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 the only member of the genus Reinwardtipicus. It is a forest specialist that is found primarily in the canopy. [2]

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Taxonomy

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]

Two subspecies are recognised: [4]

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References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
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