Olive-backed Woodpecker (Gecinulus rafflesii)
About the Olive-backed Woodpecker
The olive-backed woodpecker (Gecinulus rafflesii) is a species of bird in the woodpecker family Picidae that is found in Southeast Asia. The olive-backed woodpecker was described by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1830 from a specimen collected by Stamford Raffles. Vigors coined the binomial name Picus rafflesii, with the specific epithet chosen to honour the memory of Raffles. The type location is Sumatra. The species was then placed in the genus Dinopium that was introduced by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1814.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 29 recordings for this species: 5 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 Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Bamboo WoodpeckerGecinulus viridisrecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.