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title: "Red-backed Flameback"
description: "Dinopium psarodes — Birds. The Red-backed flameback, Lesser Sri Lanka flameback, Sri Lanka red-backed woodpecker or Ceylon red-backed woodpecker (Dinopium psarodes) is a species of bird in the family Picidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/red-backed-flameback
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red-backed Flameback

> Dinopium psarodes — Birds. The Red-backed flameback, Lesser Sri Lanka flameback, Sri Lanka red-backed woodpecker or Ceylon red-backed woodpecker (Dinopium psarodes) is a species of bird in the family Picidae.

- Scientific name: *Dinopium psarodes*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 856
- Wikidata: [Q19597709](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19597709)
- iNaturalist taxon: [979698](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/979698)

## Names

- en: Red-backed Flameback
- de: Rotrückenspecht
- es: Pito dorsirrojo
- fr: Pic de Lichtenstein
- nl: Lesser Sri Lanka flameback
- pl: Sułtanik cejloński

## Countries with the most observations

LK (716)

## Summary

The Red-backed flameback, Lesser Sri Lanka flameback, Sri Lanka red-backed woodpecker or Ceylon red-backed woodpecker (Dinopium psarodes) is a species of bird in the family Picidae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka, only absent in the far-north. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Black-rumped flameback.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-backed_flameback

## Photo

![Red-backed Flameback](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-backed-flameback/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andrew Quitmeyer · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/111761992

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-backed-flameback?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).