Melancholy Woodpecker
Dendropicos lugubris
The melancholy woodpecker is a species of woodpecker. It is found in West Africa from Sierra Leone east to Nigeria, living in forests, forest edges, clearings and woodlands. It is sometimes considered to be a subspecies of the Gabon woodpecker. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as a least-concern species.
- Scientific name
- Dendropicos lugubris
- Family
- Woodpeckers
- IUCN status
- LC