Brown-backed woodpecker (Dendropicos obsoletus)

Dendropicos obsoletus is a species in the Dendropicos genus. It is commonly known as Brown-backed woodpecker This name is unplaced name for the species in the family Picidae subfamily Picinae, tribe Melanerpini, . This species is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.