Ground woodpecker / Erdspecht (Geocolaptes olivaceus)

Wikipedia: Ground woodpecker Source: WIKIPEDIA Geocolaptes_olivaceus_-South_Africa-8.jpg

Observations

🔍 No documented observation

Description

Classification: Genus Geocolaptes (Geocolaptes); Family Woodpeckers (Picidae)
General: The ground woodpecker (Geocolaptes olivaceus) is one of only three ground-dwelling woodpeckers in the world (the others are the Andean and campo flickers). It inhabits rather barren, steep, boulder-strewn slopes in relatively cool hilly and mountainous areas of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland and has yet to be recorded outside of Southern Africa. It is found in a broad swath running from southwest to northeast, from the Cape Peninsula and Namaqualand to Mpumalanga.^[1] It is closely related to the woodpeckers of the genus Campethera, some of which also employ terrestrial foraging strategies.^[2] [more]