Green-backed Woodpecker

Campethera maculosa (Valenciennes, 1826)

16 cmLength54 gWeight

The little green woodpecker, or green-backed woodpecker (Campethera maculosa) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.

Most records: Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe

Least Concern

Where and when it's recorded

Most records: Ghana, Kenya, Zimbabwe

Green-backed Woodpecker has been recorded at 138 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 22 countries and regions.

Records by month Southern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Aberfoyle LodgeZimbabwe122 records
Arabuko-Sokoke Forest NRKenya116 records
Lake Mburo NPUganda66 records

More places

Kakum NP – Canopy Walkway & vicinityGhana62 records
Atewa Range – upland forest & ridgeGhana54 records
Atewa – farm scrub and degraded forestGhana47 records
Kakum National ParkGhana41 records
Kakum NP – CanopyGhana38 records
Bobiri Butterfly SanctuaryGhana38 records
Maasai Mara NRKenya38 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Ghana Kenya Zimbabwe Uganda Malawi Tanzania Zambia Gabon

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The little green woodpecker, or green-backed woodpecker (Campethera maculosa) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is widely distributed in tropical Africa, living in forest edges, clearings, and forest-shrub mosaics. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a least-concern species.

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