Iconic Birds
Least Concern
Quick Facts
Mass0.044 kg
Facts sourced from Wikidata (CC0).
The olive woodpecker is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae. It is in the Dendropicos genus, which comprises small woodpeckers native to Sub-Saharan Africa. There are three described subspecies, all inhabiting various regions of southeast Africa; the red-bellied olive woodpecker, the montane olive woodpecker, and the southern olive woodpecker.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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