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Black-rumped Flameblack

Dinopium benghalense · Family Picidae

Dinopium benghalense

Family Picidae

Order
Piciformes
Family
Picidae
GBIF occurrence records
358,117
Countries and territories with records
14
Black-rumped Flameblack
Kandukuru Nagarjun from Bangalore, India · Flameback digs in (52059470169).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Kandukuru Nagarjun from Bangalore, India · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Sudipto Roy · Dinopium_benghalense_-_Black-rumped_Flameback_XC561070.mp3 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Sudipto Roy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 358,117 occurrence records from 14 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (96%) and Bangladesh (2.3%); together they account for 98.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 0.56% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Dinopium benghalense combines the genus name Dinopium with the species epithet benghalense. The Warbla app catalog lists 5 species of the genus Dinopium; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Dinopium javanense, Dinopium psarodes and Dinopium shorii.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 230 species of the family Picidae. This species ranks 22nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Dryobates pubescens. Its record count is close to the family average (400,653). The family Picidae belongs to the order Piciformes, which has 424 species in the Warbla app catalog.

More birds in the family Picidae

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