Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Piciformes > Picidae > Dendropicos > Dendropicos elachusDendropicos elachus (Little Grey Woodpecker; Sahelian Woodpecker)The little grey woodpecker (Dendropicos elachus), also known as the Sahelian woodpecker, is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sudan. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.03323 EDGE Score: 1.39457 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 19 grams | | Male Weight [3] | 19 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates) | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 100 % | | Forages - Canopy [2] | 50 % | | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 50 % |
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Countries |
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Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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East Saharan montane xeric woodlands |
Chad, Sudan |
Afrotropic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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East Sudanian savanna |
Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna |
Mali |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Lake Chad flooded savanna |
Nigeria, Chad, Niger |
Afrotropic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Sahelian Acacia savanna |
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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South Saharan steppe and woodlands |
Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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West Sudanian savanna |
Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Parc National Suisse National Park |
Ia |
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Switzerland |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Aftout es Sâheli |
Mauritania |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Dilia de Lagané |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Falaise de Bandiagara |
Mali |
A3 |
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Ferlo North |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Ferlo South |
Senegal |
A3 |
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Guembeul Avifaunal Reserve and St Louis lagoons |
Senegal |
A4i |
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Hadejia-Nguru wetlands |
Nigeria |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lac Débo: Lac Oualado Débo |
Mali |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Lake Chad |
Chad |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Logone flood-plain |
Cameroon |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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NNR Aïr: Ténéré |
Niger |
A1, A3 |
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Ouadi Rimé: Ouadi Achim |
Chad |
A1, A3 |
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River Sénégal (Ntiagar to Richard-Toll) |
Senegal |
A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Tombouctou |
Mali |
A3 |
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Waza National Park |
Cameroon |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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