White-rumped woodpecker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Genus: | Meiglyptes |
Species: | M. tristis |
Binomial name | |
Meiglyptes tristis (Horsfield, 1821) |
The white-rumped woodpecker (Meiglyptes tristis) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It was previously considered conspecific with the buff-rumped woodpecker but that is now assigned to (Meiglyptes grammithorax). The white-rumped woodpecker is endemic to Java in Indonesia where it occupies the western half of the island.