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Heart-spotted Woodpecker

Hemicircus canente
Family
Woodpeckers
Order
Piciformes
Codes
heswoo1, HSWO
Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderPiciformes
FamilyWoodpeckers (Picidae)
SpeciesHemicircus canente
Codesheswoo1, HSWO
Identification

The Heart-spotted Woodpecker (Hemicircus canente) is a member of the Woodpeckers family within the order Piciformes. This species is classified in the eBird taxonomy maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Use the eBird species code heswoo1 when logging sightings in eBird or other citizen science platforms.

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Heart-spotted Woodpecker photo
(c) Avinash Bhagat, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Avinash Bhagat

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Quick Facts

Scientific Name: Hemicircus canente

Family: Woodpeckers

Order: Piciformes

eBird Code: heswoo1