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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dryobates is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are widely distributed and occur in both Eurasia and the Americas.
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Male Nuttall's woodpecker in California, USA | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: | Dryobates F. Boie, 1826 |
Species | |
Seven, see text |
The genus Dryobates was named by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) as the type species.[1]
The genus name Dryobates is from the Greek compound word δρυο-βάτης : 'woodland walker'; from δρῦς : drus (genitive δρυός : dryós) meaning woodland and -βάτης : -bátēs meaning walker.[2] In the eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, the genus Dryobates is expanded to include all the species in Leuconotopicus and Veniliornis.[3]
The genus contains the following species:[4]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Nuttall's woodpecker | Dryobates nuttallii (Gambel, 1843) |
northern California extending south towards the northwest region of Baja California, Mexico |
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Downy woodpecker | Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) |
North America |
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Ladder-backed woodpecker | Dryobates scalaris (Wagler, 1829) |
Southwestern United States (north to extreme southern Nevada and extreme southeastern Colorado), most of Mexico, and locally in Central America as far south as Nicaragua |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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Lesser spotted woodpecker | Dryobates minor (Linnaeus, 1758) Thirteen subspecies
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Europe and northern Asia |
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Crimson-naped woodpecker | Dryobates cathpharius (Blyth, 1843) Two subspecies
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Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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Necklaced woodpecker | Dryobates pernyii (Verreaux, J,, 1867) |
Bangladesh, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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