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Common or Spot-throated Flameback

Dinopium [javanense or everetti] (= Dinopium javanense) (Ljungh, SI 1797)

The Common Flameback, also referred to as the Common Goldenback, is a small (28–30 cm), three-toed woodpecker in the family Picidae most distinguished by its golden back. Males and females differ in the crest colour, as males have a bright red crest while females have a black crest with white streaks. Both sexes have a white supercilium, white cheek stripe, and white throat area, all separated by stripes of black, and they have a spotted black and white underside. The bird is distinguishable from other similar golden-backed woodpeckers, such as the Greater Flameback, by its smaller bill and black nape, and from the Black-rumped Flameback by its red rump and white throat. It’s loud, high-pitched call, which resembles a series of Kow-Kowp-Rattles is incredibly similar to the Greater Flameback’s call, and is the best way to distinguish the Common Flameback from the Himalayan Flameback, which is a nearly identical bird. Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Piciformes
Family:
  Picidae
Genus:
   Dinopium
Scientific:
  Dinopium javanense

Original description

Citation:
  (Ljungh, SI 1797)

Reference:
   Kung. Sven. Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 18 p.134 pl.6

Protonym:
  Picus javanensis

Type locality:
  Java.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180070#page/150/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  6B64BF6C5FFB12DB

Avibase ID:
  avibase-6B64BF6C

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/6B64BF6C

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 554150

Geographic range:

  • Dinopium javanense: disjunctly in lowland and foothill open forest, scrub, plantations, parks, and mangroves, in southwestern India, and from Bangladesh and eastern India and eastward to northern Vietnam, and southward through Malay Peninsula to Greater Sundas and some adjacent islands
  • Dinopium javanense javanense: peninsular Thailand southward to Sumatra (including the Riau Archipelago) and western Java
  • Dinopium javanense borneonense: Borneo (except northeast)
  • Dinopium javanense raveni: Eraban Island and adjacent northeastern Borneo
  • Dinopium javanense malabaricum: wet woodland of western India
  • Dinopium javanense intermedium: Bangladesh and Assam to Myanmar, southwestern China, and Indochina
  • Dinopium javanense exsul: eastern Java and Bali
  • Dinopium everetti: southern Philippines (Balabac, Palawan, and Calamian Islands)
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Source: Clements checklist
English:
Common or Spot-throated Flameback
French:
Pic à dos rouge ou P. à dos rouge (everetti)

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Common or Spot-throated Flameback ( Dinopium [javanense or everetti])
Birdlife checklist version 00:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 01:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 02:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 03:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 04:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 05 (Jun 2012):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 05.1 (Oct 2012):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 06 (Nov 2013):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Birdlife checklist version 06.1 (Feb 2014):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993, révision 2009):
Pic à dos rouge ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993):
Pic à dos rouge ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Clements 1st edition:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Clements 3rd edition:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Clements 4th edition:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (as published):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.5 incl. 2010 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Clements 6th edition (version 6.6 incl. 2011 revisions):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
eBird version 1.50:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
eBird version 1.52:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 2nd edition:
Common Gold-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl):
Common Gold-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2):
Common Flame-backed Woodpecker ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World (vol 1-16):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 2]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.5:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.6:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.7:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.0:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.1:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.2:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.3:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.4:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.5:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.6:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.7:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.8:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.9:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.10:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 2.11:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 3.1:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Morony, Bock and Farrand:
Common Goldenback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Oriental Bird Club:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds:
Dinopium javanense [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original):
Dinopium javanense [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition):
Dinopium javanense [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe (1993):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998):
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0:
Common Flameback ( Dinopium javanense) [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
Dinopium javanense [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
Dinopium javanense [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Bengali: পাতি কাঠঠোকরা
Catalan: Picot ardent oriental
Czech: Datel malabarský, datel zlatohřbetý
Danish: Gylden Sultanspætte
German: Feuerrückenspecht, Feuerrücken-Specht, Stummelspecht
English: Common Flameback, Common Flame-backed Woodpecker, Common Gold-backed Woodpecker, Common Goldenback, Common Golden-backed Woodpecker, Common or Spot-throated Flameback, Golden-backed Three-toed Woodpecker, Golden-backed Woodpecker, Indian Golden-backed Three-toed Woodpeck, Indian Golden-backed Woodpecker, Three-toed Woodpecker
Esperanto: Komuna fajrdorsulo
Spanish: Pico Lomo Dorado Común, Pito Culirrojo
Estonian: tuliselg-sultanrähn
Finnish: Kultasiipitikka, tulitöyhtö
French: Pic à dos rouge, Pic à dos rouge ou P. à dos rouge (everetti)
Hungarian: jávai küllő
Indonesian: Burung Pelatuk Besi, Pelatuk Besi
Italian: Dorso di fiamma comune, Dorso di fuoco comune, Picchio dorsodorato di Giava
Japanese (romaji): zu-aka mi-yubi gera, zuakamiyubigera
Japanese: ズアカミユビゲラ
Japanese (Kanji): 頭赤三趾啄木鳥
Scientific: Dinopium [javanense or everetti], Dinopium javanense, Dinopium javanense javanense, Dinopium javanese, Picus javanensis
Lithuanian: Auksanugaris rytinis genys
Malayalam: ത്രിയംഗുലി  മരംകൊത്തി 
Malay: Belatuk, Belatuk Pinang Kecil, Burung Belatok Pinang Muda, Burung Belatuk, Burung Belatuk Emas, Burung Belatuk Pinang Kecil, Burung Belatuk Pinang Muda
Dutch: Javaanse Goudrugspecht
Norwegian: Gullryggspett
Polish: sultan czerwonorzytny, sułtan czerwonorzytny
Pinyin: jīn-bèi sān-zhǐ zhuó-mù-niǎo
Russian: Золотоспинный индо-малайский дятел
Slovak: zlatoš ohnivý
Swedish: Guldryggad sultanspett
Tamil: Merkathia Ponmudhugu Maram kothi
Thai: นกหัวขวานสามนิ้วหลังทอง
Thai (Transliteration): nók hŭa-kʰwăan săam-níw lăŋ-tʰoaaŋ
Ukrainian: Дзьобак золотоспинний
Vietnamese: Chim Gõ kiến vàng nhỏ, Gõ kiến vàng nhỏ
Chinese: 金背三趾啄木鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 金背三趾啄木鳥

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