Northern sooty woodpecker
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Species: | M. funebris
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Mulleripicus funebris (Valenciennes, 1826)
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The northern sooty woodpecker (Mulleripicus funebris)[2] is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to Luzon, Marinduque, Catanduanes and the Polillo Islands in the Philippines.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The northern sooty woodpecker was once considered conspecific with the southern sooty woodpecker and both were lumped together as Mulleripicus funebris and known as, simply, the 'sooty woodpecker'.
References
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- ^ "Mulleripicus funebris". International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Retrieved 2014-12-30.