Fine-banded Woodpecker (Campethera taeniolaema)

Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema

Current view: Data table and detailed info

Taxonomy

Taxonomic note

Campethera tullbergi and C. taeniolaema (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) were previously lumped as C. tullbergi following Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2014	Least Concern
2012	Not Recognised
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	733,000 km²	medium
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	-	suspected	-
Generation length	3.64 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be locally fairly common to not uncommon (del Hoyo et al. 2002). This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 12.8% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being 11-14%.

Trend justification: .

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident
Burundi	extant	native	yes
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	extant	native	yes
Kenya	extant	native	yes
Rwanda	extant	native	yes
Tanzania	extant	native	yes
Uganda	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Burundi	Bururi Forest Nature Reserve
Burundi	Kibira National Park
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Forests west of Lake Edward
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Itombwe Mountains
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Lendu Plateau
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Mount Kabobo
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	Virunga National Park
Kenya	Aberdare Mountains
Kenya	Cherangani Hills
Kenya	Kikuyu Escarpment forest
Kenya	Mau forest complex
Kenya	Mount Elgon (Kenya)
Kenya	Mount Kenya
Rwanda	Nyungwe National Park
Rwanda	Volcans National Park
Tanzania	Mahali Mountain National Park
Uganda	Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Uganda	Kasyoha-Kitomi Forest Reserve
Uganda	Kibale National Park
Uganda	Mount Elgon National Park

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	major	resident
Altitude	900 - 3000 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Fine-banded Woodpecker Campethera taeniolaema. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/fine-banded-woodpecker-campethera-taeniolaema on 23/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 23/11/2024.