Arabian Woodpecker

分类位置

同属物种

褐额啄木鸟

Brown-fronted Woodpecker

Middle Spotted Woodpecker

Middle Spotted Woodpecker

形态与习性

The Arabian woodpecker (Dendrocoptes dorae) or Sarat woodpecker, is a bird species of the family Picidae, native to the Sarawat Mountains of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It is the only woodpecker that breeds on the Arabian Peninsula. This species was first described in 1935 by the American naturalist George Latimer Bates and the Scottish zoologist Norman Boyd Kinnear, the scientific name being proposed by their occasional co-worker, the British Arabist St John Philby, in honour of his wife Dora. Some