Northern sooty woodpecker

The northern sooty woodpecker (Mulleripicus funebris)[2] is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines.

Northern sooty woodpecker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Piciformes
Family: Picidae
Genus: Mulleripicus
Species:
M. funebris
Binomial name
Mulleripicus funebris
(Valenciennes, 1877)

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The northern sooty woodpecker was once considered conspecific with the southern sooty woodpecker and both were lumped together as Mulleripicus funebris and known simply as the "sooty woodpecker".

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Mulleripicus funebris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. "Mulleripicus funebris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 2014-12-30.


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