Crimson-backed flameback

Not to be confused with Red-backed flameback.

Crimson-backed flameback
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Chrysocolaptes
Species:
C. stricklandi
Binomial name
Chrysocolaptes stricklandi
(Layard, 1854) [2]

The crimson-backed flameback or greater Sri Lanka flameback (Chrysocolaptes stricklandi) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae that is endemic to Sri Lanka.

The crimson-backed flameback and the greater flameback (Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus) were both formerly considered as subspecies of the buff-spotted flameback (Chrysocolaptes lucidus).[3][4]

Nigel Collar (2011, p. 33) notes the differences between Chrysocolaptes stricklandi and Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus as being that the former has a crimson rather than golden upper body plumage, a yellow rather than a black beak, a weaker supramoustachial stripe and a less noticeable, even spotty, eyebrow stripe.[5]

Notes

It takes its latin name (formerly Brachypternus Stricklandi) from Hugh Edwin Strickland (see Layard 1854 p. 29).

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Chrysocolaptes stricklandi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22726554A94925144. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22726554A94925144.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Layard, E. L., 1854. XXIV.—Notes on the ornithology of Ceylon, collected during an eight years’ residence in the Island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2) 13 (76):257–264 (see page 29)
  3. ^ Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Anderton, John C. (2012). Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide. Vol. 2: Attributes and Status (2nd ed.). Washington D.C. and Barcelona: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Lynx Edicions. p. 290. ISBN 978-84-96553-87-3.
  4. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Woodpeckers". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  5. ^ Collar, N.J. (2011). "Species limits in some Philippine birds including the Greater Flameback Chrysocolaptes lucidus". Forktail. 27: 29–38.

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