Orange-backed woodpecker

The orange-backed woodpecker (Chrysocolaptes validus) is a bird in the woodpecker family Picidae, found in southern Thailand, Malaya, Sarawak and Sabah in Malaysia, Brunei, Sumatra, and Java. It is monotypic in the genus Reinwardtipicus. It is a forest specialist that is found primarily in the canopy.^[2]

Orange-backed woodpecker
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Piciformes
Family:	Picidae
Genus:	Chrysocolaptes
Species:	C. validus
Binomial name
Chrysocolaptes validus (Temminck, 1825)

Taxonomy

The orange-backed woodpecker was described and illustrated in 1825 by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in his Nouveau recueil de planches coloriées d'oiseaux from specimens that had been collected on the Indonesian island of Java. He coined the binomial name Pic validus.^[3]

Two subspecies are recognised:^[4]

• C. v. xanthopygius (Finsch, 1905) – the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo
• C. v. validus (Temminck, 1825) – Java