Woodpeckers

Melancholy Woodpecker

Dendropicos lugubris

The Melancholy Woodpecker (Dendropicos lugubris) is a 26 g bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Woodpeckers

Order

Piciformes

Weight

26 g

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

8

Recorded in Ghana, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Togo.

Where to see it: Atewa Range · upland forest & ridge (Ghana); Bobiri Butterfly Sanctuary (Ghana); Ankasa NP (Ghana); Wulki Farm (Liberia); Yekepa (Liberia).

Photo: (c) Zac Peterson, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist