Order
Piciformes
Family
Picidae
Genus
Chloropicus
Species
pyrrhogaster
Conservation Status
Least Concern
Location Photographed
Ghana,
Number of Sub-Species
0
Migratory or Resident
Resident
Preferred Habitat
Edges of primary rainforests, gallery forests, scattered woodlands, degraded areas, wooded savannah and scrubby bush with some large dead trees
Distribution and Range
North western Sub Sahara Africa
Food
Probes, gleans and hammers for arboreal insects especialloy bettle larvae