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The Knysna woodpecker (''Campethera notata'') is a species of bird in the Picidae family. It is endemic to South Africa, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. ==Physical description== This species is distinguished from the other South African woodpeckers by its thickly spotted under-surface which is covered black spots from the chin to the vent. Males and females differ slightly. Males have an olive green color above with indistinct, small transverse bars and a few diamond-shaped sub terminal spots that are a paler olive yellow. The quills are brown, except for near the base where they are externally olive. The secondary quills are olive-brown, duller than the back, and transversely barred with a yellow tinged white. The primaries are externally spotted with yellow, notched on the inner web with white, and the shafts are brown. The tail is olive-brown shaded with an almost green color and crossed with six bars of an almost yellow color. The tips of the feathers are a dull golden, while the shafts are golden brown. Its head is a gray-black color and all of the feathers on it are tipped with scarlet. The occipital crest (located at the base of the cranium) is completely a bright scarlet color. Its lores are yellowish and minutely spotted with black. The ear-coverts are whitish and streaked with black, while the fore parts of its cheeks are scarlet. The rest of the sides of its face and neck are yellowish white, thickly mottled with black. The feathers in this area are black with a narrow whitish edging. The underside of its body is yellowish, white on the throat, and, as mentioned earlier, thickly spotted. These spots are rounded and very large on the breast, but more diamond-shaped on the abdomen. Its flanks are barred with dusky black and the under wing coverts are yellow with black round spots like the breast. Its eyes are hazel colored. Approximate length is .〔Haagner, Alwin, and Robert H. Ivy. Sketches of South African Bird-life. Cape Town: T. Maskew Miller, 1914. Print.〕 The female Knysna is similar to the male, but its black head is spotted with white and its occiput is only scarlet.〔Layard, Edgar Leopold, and R. Bowdler Sharpe. The Birds of South Africa. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1875. Print.〕 ==Feeding and foraging== The Knysna woodpecker feeds mainly on ants and ant larvae, as well as wood-boring beetles and termites, including their eggs and pupae.〔BirdLife International (2015) Species factsheet: Campethera notata. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 04/03/2015.〕 It forages at all levels of the tree canopy, pecking, gleaning and probing in search of prey as it works its way along branches.〔http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/birds/picidae/campethera_notata.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knysna woodpecker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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