Arabian Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes dorae)
About the Arabian Woodpecker
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 taxonomic authorities continue to place the species in Dendrocopos, while others place it genus Dendropicos.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 26 recordings for this species: 23 CC BY-NC-SA · 3 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Saudi Arabia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Middle Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocoptes mediusrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.