Speckle-throated Woodpecker

Campethera scriptoricauda

The speckle-throated woodpecker, also known as Reichenow's woodpecker, is an East African woodpecker often considered a subspecies of Bennett's woodpecker. The bird is named after the German ornithologist Anton Reichenow.

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