Dryobates is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. The species are widely distributed and occur in both Eurasia and the Americas.
Dryobates | |
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Male Nuttall's woodpecker in California, USA | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Piciformes |
Family: | Picidae |
Tribe: | Melanerpini |
Genus: | Dryobates F. Boie, 1826 |
Species | |
Seven, see text |
The genus Dryobates was named by the German naturalist Friedrich Boie in 1826 with the downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) as the type species.[1]
The genus name Dryobates is from the Greek compound word δρυο-βάτης : 'woodland walker'; from δρῦς : drus (genitive δρυός : dryós) meaning woodland and -βάτης : -bátēs meaning walker.[2] In the eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, the genus Dryobates is expanded to include all the species in Leuconotopicus and Veniliornis.[3]
The genus contains the following species:[4]
Male | Female | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Dryobates nuttallii | Nuttall's woodpecker | northern California extending south towards the northwest region of Baja California, Mexico | ||
Dryobates pubescens | Downy woodpecker | North America | ||
Dryobates scalaris | Ladder-backed woodpecker | southwestern United States (north to extreme southern Nevada and extreme southeastern Colorado), most of Mexico, and locally in Central America as far south as Nicaragua | ||
Dryobates minor | Lesser spotted woodpecker | Europe and northern Asia | ||
Dryobates cathpharius | Crimson-naped woodpecker | Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar and Nepal | ||
Dryobates pernyii | Necklaced woodpecker | Bangladesh, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam |