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Levaillant's Woodpecker
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Levaillant's Woodpecker
Picus vaillantii
The Levaillant’s woodpecker or Levaillant’s green woodpecker (Picus vaillantii) is a large member of the woodpecker family Piciformes. It occurs as a resident breeder in the three Maghreb countries Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia in northwest Africa. This species was named in honour of the French explorer, collector and ornithologist, François Le Vaillant.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 18366.