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Cardinal Woodpecker
Dendropicos fuscescens · Family Picidae
Dendropicos fuscescens
Family Picidae
- Order
- Piciformes
- Family
- Picidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 136,555
- Countries and territories with records
- 44
About this species
This species has 136,555 occurrence records from 44 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from South Africa (66.4%), Kenya (7.9%), Tanzania (3.9%), Zimbabwe (3.6%) and Namibia (3.2%); together they account for 84.9% of the total. In South Africa, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Dendropicos fuscescens combines the genus name Dendropicos with the species epithet fuscescens. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Dendropicos; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dendropicos griseocephalus, Dendropicos goertae and Dendropicos spodocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 34th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is 34.1% of the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.