Endangered
Buff-rumped Woodpecker
Meiglyptes tristis
Buff-rumped Woodpecker is a bird in the family Picidae (order Piciformes) — Meiglyptes tristis, recorded as Endangered.
The bird
Published measurements include mass about 40.
The zebra woodpecker was described by the American naturalist Thomas Horsfield in 1821 under the binomial name Picus tristis from a specimen collected in Java.
Range and habitat
It is found in plantations of coconuts, rubber, and silk plants. Villages that border secondary forest; mangroves, and polyculture areas. It is known to access disturbed habitats. It is disputed whether zebra woodpeckers are found within primary and secondary forests.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is considered endangered. The species is now placed in the genus Meiglyptes that was introduced by the English naturalist William Swainson in 1837.
Buff-rumped Woodpecker is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Buff-rumped Woodpecker, Wikidata item Q795557. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
